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The Fire Within

Desire, Sexuality, Longing, and God

Ronald Rolheiser author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Paraclete Press

Published:16th Mar '21

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For most religious people, the words God and sex never go together.
 
God is conceived of as holy, pure, sexless, and as morally above the raw desires that so powerfully beset us. Sex, on the other hand, is conceived of as earthy and unholy, something we must snatch, and not without guilt, from the gods. Christianity has struggled mightily with sex; so too have most other religions. And yet when we look at sexual desire and ask where it comes from, there can be only one answer. It comes from God.
 
This is a book on desire, its experience, its origins, its meaning, and how it might be generatively channeled. Sexuality is inside us to help lure us back to God, but dealing with this fire inside us is a lifelong struggle. Ron Rolheiser sheds light on this mystery and the journey it takes us on in these tantalizing fragments that help give us permission to feel what we feel and know that God is still smiling on us.
 

ISBN: 9781640606661

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 91g

112 pages