The God of Sex: How Spirituality Determines Sexuality

Author: Dr. Peter Jones

Year: 2006

Who is the God of Sex? Is he or she the object of some new pagan revival...some ancient fertility rite with a post-modern twist? Or is the God of the Bible the god of sex? Your answer to that question depends upon your view of the world, frankly. And you might actually be surprised at your answer...if you examine your own spiritual life a little more closely.

In this thought-provoking and authentic book, neo-paganism expert and theologian Peter Jones is not calling for a restoration of some nostalgic America-of-the-fifties-style sensibility. And neither is the debate about sex merely a conflict between uptight traditionalists and cutting-edge futurists. Rather, Jones presents two views of sexuality that have emerged from two timeless religious options tied to two fundamental worldviews. And the battle of beliefs rages stronger today than it ever did in the days of the Bible's ancient Israel.

"The God of Sex is a timely and significant book. Far from ... books that ... seek to titillate ... by the use of the word "sex," Jones gives us a serious and Scriptural look at pagan thinking about sexuality - and offers a riveting analysis and critique, followed by a beautiful unfolding of the biblical and Christian view of sex. This is not the dusty stuff of antiquarianism, but vital a contemporary discussion with massive importance for current Christian engagement in and with our culture. Read and grow!"

~ J. Ligon Duncan III, PhD
Senior Minister, FPC, Jackson, MS
President, Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
Past Moderator, General Assembly of the PCA

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Chapters:

Introduction: God and Sex -- An Odd Couple

Prologue: The Beginning of the Story

Part One: Sexuality According to the Pagan View of God

1. Out with the Old: Make Love, Not War

2. Out with the Old: The Death of God

3. In with the New: The Coming Sexual Utopia

4. Homosexuality: The Sexual Sacrament of Religious Paganism

5. Unintended Destructive Consequences

Part Two: Sexuality according to the Biblical Worldview

6. God and Sex

7. the Birth of Sex

8. the Death of Sex

9. Born-Again Sex and the Future

10. Born-Again Sex and the Present

11. Awesome Sex: Fear Not

Epilogue: The Rest of the Story

Bibliography

Notes

Reader's Guide