Authentic Human Sexuality – An Integrated Christian Approach
IVP Academic (Verlag)
978-0-8308-5237-6 (ISBN)
Sex pervades our culture, going far beyond the confines of the bedroom into the workplace, the church, and the media. Yet despite all the attention and even obsession devoted to sex, human sexuality remains confusing and even foreboding. What, after all, is authentic human sexuality?
That is the question Judith and Jack Balswick set out to answer in this wide-ranging and probing book. Informed by sociology, psychology, and theology, the Balswicks investigate how human sexuality originates both biologically and socially. They lay groundwork for a normative Christian interpretation of sexuality, show how authentic sexuality is necessarily grounded in relationships, and explore such forms of "inauthentic sexuality" as sexual harassment, pornography, and rape.
Since its first publication, Authentic Human Sexuality has established itself as a standard text at numerous colleges and seminaries. Now this third edition features updated theological and social science research, insights from current neuropsychological evidence, and an expanded biblical model of authentic sexual relationships, along with updated discussion of sexual minorities, same-sex attraction, and LGBTQ issues.
A new generation of students, pastors, psychologists, and sociologists engaged in counseling will be indebted to the Balswicks for this study of an endlessly fascinating and perplexing facet of human identity.
Judith K. Balswick (EdD, University of Georgia) is a licensed marriage and family therapist who has been in practice for over thirty years and has taught for over twenty years in the marriage and family therapy program at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. Her books include The Family, The Gift of Gender, and A Model for Marriage. Jack O. Balswick (PhD, University of Iowa) is senior professor of sociology and family development at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has twice received an American Senior Fulbright Scholar Fellowship. He is author or coauthor of seventeen books, including Men at the Crossroads, The Reciprocating Self, and A Model for Marriage.
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Formation of Sexuality
1. Authentic Sexuality: God’s Good Gift
2. Human Sexuality: A Sociocultural Context
3. Human Sexuality: An Interactive Developmental Model
4. Sexual Minority Identity Formation
5. The LGBTQ Community: Christian Responses
Part II: Authentic Sexuality
6. Sexual Beings in Relationship
7. Sexuality and Singleness
8. Premarital Cohabitation: Pathway Toward or Alternative to Marriage
9. Marital Sexuality: Maximizing Sexual Fulfillment
Part III: Inauthentic Sexuality
10. Infidelity: A Broken Covenant
11. Sexual Harassment: Uninvited Eroticization
12. Sexual Abuse: A Violation Deep Within the Soul
13. Rape and Sexual Violence: Abusive Power
14. Pornography and Erotica
15. Sexual Addiction, Sexual Compulsivity, and Hypersexuality
Part IV: Conclusion
16. The Sexually Authentic Society
References
Subject Index
Scripture Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2019 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | IL |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 432 g |
| Themenwelt | Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8308-5237-9 / 0830852379 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8308-5237-6 / 9780830852376 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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