{"id":8447,"date":"2019-08-20T10:54:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T15:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8447"},"modified":"2019-08-20T19:08:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T00:08:46","slug":"beauty-order-and-mystery-a-christian-vision-of-human-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=8447","title":{"rendered":"BEAUTY, ORDER, AND MYSTERY: A CHRISTIAN VISION OF HUMAN SEXUALITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Beauty, Order, and Mystery: A Christian Vision of Human Sexuality (Center for Pastor Theologians Series)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B076118D7J\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are looking for a thoughtful and accessible introduction to the various issues swirling around human sexuality, I highly recommend this book.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Each chapter is done by a scholar who is intimately involved in their local church.\u00a0 In other words, they are not merely addressing theoretical matters, but things they have seen up close.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As with all controversial subjects, the authors don&#8217;t agree with one another on every point, but there is much they do find common ground on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One area that I appreciated very much is the emphasis not only on showing the truthfulness of God&#8217;s will for sexuality, but the beauty of it.\u00a0 Aesthetics is an important area of doing good theology!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A terrific resource for our cultural moment!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for a thoughtful and accessible introduction to the various issues swirling around human sexuality, I highly recommend this book. Each chapter is done by a scholar who is intimately involved in their local church.\u00a0 In other words, they are not merely addressing theoretical matters, but things they have seen up close. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,88,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","category-book-review","category-culture","category-sexuality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8451,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8447\/revisions\/8451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}