Sexuality and the Religious Imagination
Tepaske, Bradley A.
How could it be that the sacral significance of sex has been ignored for nearly 2, 000 years of patriarchal Christian history? To address this fascinating question, TePaske surveys many classic conflicts that exist between religious creeds and the irrepressible numinosity of the body, sex and erotic love. In doing so, he charts an open course through Biblical Christianity, Catholic dogma, medieval sexual heresies and Gnosticism, as he reckons ...
