Download Your Copy Sexuality And The Christian Body: Their Way Into The Triune God Imagined By Eugene F. Rogers Jr. Distributed In Paperback

Rogers offers a profound gift to the church in this book, His goal is not merely to continue the debates surrounding samesex marriages in the Christian community, but more so to refocus the debate on its proper subject matter: the theological meaning and purpose of marriage.


By refocusing the emphasis in this way, Rogers is able to retrieve some surprising sources like Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth for opening new directions in the theology of marriage.
He argues that marriage is only properly understood from a Christian perspective as a means for disciplining our bodies and desires so that they are primarily oriented to finding fulfillment in partaking of the fellowship of the Triune God.
Rogers shows that this understanding of the Christian covenant of marriage elegantly gives coherence to oppositesex marriage, samesex marriage, and the vocation of celibacy.


Even if one disagrees with Rogers' conclusions, his call to return to properly theological matters in understanding same sex relationships and the meaning of marriage is an means whereby the Church might be able to come to conclusions together and in unity, rather than through further division and animosity.
While a very abstract and philosophical read, the concepts unpacked by Rogers are some of the most sophisticated I have come across.


For example, his work on understanding the category of nature both in Scripture as well as Aquinas are excellent critiques of the kinds of appeals that homosexuality is unnatural therefore wrong.
The notion of what is "natural" and even how God's grace acts "contrary to nature" as Roger's shows leaves that objection without force.


On the other hand, thinking about marriage using Greek Orthodox theology, likening it to a sanctifying practice, I kind on of the most helpful ways of thinking about the subject.


As I said, the book is quite abstract, You are not getting an argument like David Gushee's Changing our Minds, For those interested into the

deep conceptual dive, this book has lots to contribute, addresses the challenges to traditional Christianity by gay and lesbian Christians and their critics within the church, This controversial book will be welcomed for the radical new insights it provides into Christian arguments about the body.
Eugene F. Rogers is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Educated at Princeton, Tübingen, Rome, and Yale, Rogers taught at Yale College and Divinity School, Shaw University Divinity School, St.
Anselm College, and, fromto, at the University of Virginia, where for several years he chaired the Program in Theology, Ethics, and Culture.
All eight of his finished Ph, D. students have had full time employment in colleges or universities, six tenure track, In, he was the Eli Lilly Visiting Associate Professor of Christian Thought and Practice in the Religion Department at Princeton University.
He has held fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Mellon Foundation, the National Huma Eugene F, Rogers is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Educated at Princeton, Tübingen, Rome, and Yale, Rogers taught at Yale College and Divinity School, Shaw University Divinity School, St.
Anselm College, and, fromto, at the University of Virginia, where for several years he chaired the Program in Theology, Ethics, and Culture.
All eight of his finished Ph, D. students have had full time employment in colleges or universities, six tenure track, In, he was the Eli Lilly Visiting Associate Professor of Christian Thought and Practice in the Religion Department at Princeton University.
He has held fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, the Mellon Foundation, the National Humanities Center, the Lilly Foundation, the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton Seminary, and the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University.
He is author or editor of five books and some thirty articles and translations, He joined the UNCG faculty in, sitelink.