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File Size: 2363 KB
Print Length: 256 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1587433699
Publisher: Brazos Press (July 14, 2015)
Publication Date: July 14, 2015
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00QMSCK98
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I was really disappointed in this. The author spent the first half of the book establishing the fact that Christians are influenced by culture. That was well-done and well documented. The second half was supposed to be how Christians should respond as regards sexual relationships. Some of his statements were just plain weird; for instance: "If our sexuality is intricately connected to our spirituality, then our sexual desires must be properly directed to God before they can be healthily expressed in our sexual lives." I am not sure how sexual desires are directed to God.I was pleased when he started to talk about a theology of singleness, but I felt like he didn't develop it well. He states that married people bear God's image by relationship. Single people image God by a drive to "enlarge the household of God" because they have more friends and relationships. He encourages pastors to promote "social spaces and ministry contexts in which people's fundamental need for relational intimacy is being met and where their social/sexual energy can be expressed in line with its divine purpose. He goes on to say that is by service "without the explicit pressure of dating." That doesn't sound like a big win for singles!Parts of his final chapters are devoted to ways in which the church can help single people meet suitable marriage partners. I hoped he would deal with singleness being an honorable situation and talk about ways to help unmarried people flourish in the church.I believe the main point of his second half of the book was that we only grow and flourish in community.The author seemed to bounce around a lot and it seems like his points could have been made more succinctly.
I picked this book up out of curiosity and let it sit on my shelf for a bit. But once I finally got around to cracking it open, I was floored!The book is split into two parts. In the first section, Grant explores and diagnoses modern culture's sexual ethos. Grant has a firm grasp on the moores and social narratives of a postmodern (and post-Christian) culture, and turns to the research and expertise of Charles Taylor, Christian Smith, and James K A Smith, to bolster his already solid estimation. His conclusion is that in contemporary culture the individual is paramount, and his/her needs come before all else. As a result, meaningful and lasting sexual fidelity and chastity are rare.Part two prescribes a uniquely Christian response to contemporary culture's sexual convictions (or lack of) by proposing that the Church ought to incarnate an alternative narrative; one in which the "other" or the community are paramount, as we seek to emulate and embody the sacrificial love of God in Christ. Grant owes much to Stanley Hauerwas and Stanley J. Grenz in this respect, and with their help his case is made with stunning clarity and conviction.With the two pieces put together, book essentially functions like a philosophical/theological "State of the Union" address - assessing where we are, and projecting where we ought to be going as Christians. Sexuality is at the center of the conversation, but it's used as a crux around which larger conversations about culture and God can revolve. It all rotates spectacularly and left me with my highlighter running out of ink as I strove to capture Grant's vision for myself.But while the book is intellectually engaging and provoking, what really makes it a gem is its spiritual depth. Grant clearly has a thriving devotional life and his pastoral heart is on display here, especially towards the end of the book. Certain parts of the book read almost like devotion texts, while never straying from the academic rigor necessary to write on a topic this complex. Such a balancing act is nearly impossible to find in modern Christian literature.Grant does a phenomenal job of providing a road-map of how traditional Christian sexual convictions allow us to flourish and thrive in the context of our own hypersexualized modern Babylon. I wish every modern Christian had this book as a lens through which to view our ever-changing sexual landscape. I recommend this book regularly, and can't wait to read whatever Mr. Grant writes next!
This book got metro think outside of the box. As a single I need to allow God to shape my heart’s desires. Also he discusses how important the Christian church community is for spiritual formation including in the sexual area. In order to develop Christ like love I need to be able to walk that out in the power of the Spirit in community.
To date the best book I have read on this subject with practical things a community of believers to do to be loving to all their neighbors around them.
Any minister or even serious Christian in the Western world should read this book. The reflection is astutely Biblical and wise to the times, though I would like to have seen more incarnational stories at the end to see its principles put on working clothes.
Title suggests narrow focus, but it actually addresses the secularized (and in particular, the sexualized) fishbowl in which we swim; without, as is the wont of fish of every kind, much conscious sense of the environing medium in which "we live and move." In this case that means the culture, the social environment and the world shaped by it, with which we are in almost constant contact, and by which we are shaped and influenced to a degree far greater than we know or suspect. So, not only does the worldly world get described (probably an eye-opener for most of us); but how it works its way into many, if not all, of the fibers of our being is dealt with; also, the effect this pervading (whether absolute or merely extensive) has on us -- individually, in combinations, and collectively. In the footsteps of Charles Taylor, philosopher and author of _The Secular Age_; and possibly in step with James K. A. Smith, and his guide to reading Taylor -- _How (Not) To Be Secular_. When I've read more of it, I may add to this review. So far? Very important, very profound, very helpful; of potential benefit to virtually everyone. I highly recommend it.
Good analysis of surrounding cultural factors and an honest look at what Christians are facing with their sexuality.
An excellent treatment of several timely aspects of a perennial topic.
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