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Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire

10 best books like Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire (Jennifer Wright Knust): Fear and Trembling, Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions, Shameless: A Sexual Reformation, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes, Half-Breed, The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It, Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free, Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation, The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen: Opening Your Eyes to Wonder, Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality

Fear and Trembling
AuthorSøren Kierkegaard
ISBN0143037579
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century.

In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard wanted to understand the anxiety...
Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions
AuthorRachel Held Evans
ISBN0310293995
Eighty years after the Scopes Monkey Trial made a spectacle of Christian fundamentalism and brought national attention to her hometown, Rachel Held Evans faced a trial of her own when she began to have doubts about her faith.

In Faith Unraveled, Rachel recounts growing up in a culture obsessed...
Shameless: A Sexual Reformation
AuthorNadia Bolz-Weber
Raw, intimate, and timely, Nadia Bolz-Weber’s latest book offers a full-blown overhaul of our harmful and antiquated ideas about sex, gender, and our bodies.
 
Christians are obsessed with sex. But not in a good way. For generations countless people have suffered pain, guilt, and judgment...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
AuthorAdam Rutherford
ISBN0297609378
This is a story about you.

It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births,...
Half-Breed
AuthorMaria Campbell
ISBN0887801161
Maria Campbell's biography is a classic, vital account of a young Métis woman's struggle to come to terms with the joys, sorrows, loves and tragedies of her northern Saskatchewan childhood.

Maria was a strong and sensitive child who lived in a community robbed of its pride and dignity by the...
The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
AuthorPeter Enns
ISBN0062272020
The controversial Bible scholar and author of The Evolution of Adam recounts his transformative spiritual journey in which he discovered a new, more honest way to love and appreciate God’s Word.

Trained as an evangelical Bible scholar, Peter Enns loved the Scriptures and shared his devotion,...
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
AuthorLinda Kay Klein
ISBN1501124811
From a woman who has been there and back, the first inside look at the devastating effects evangelical Christianity’s purity culture has had on a generation of young women—in a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir.

In the 1990s, a “purity industry”...
Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation
AuthorDale B. Martin
ISBN0664230466
Probing into numerous questions about gender and sexuality, Dale Martin delves into the biblical texts anew and unearths surprising findings. Avoiding preconceptions about ancient sexuality, he explores the ethics of desire and marriage and pays careful attention to the original meanings of...
The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen: Opening Your Eyes to Wonder
AuthorLisa Gungor
ISBN0310350433
Lisa Gungor thought she knew her own story: small-town girl meets boy in college and they blissfully walk down the aisle into happily ever after. Their Christian faith was their lens and foundation for everything—their marriage, their music, their dreams for the future. But as their dreams began...
Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections Between Sexuality and Spirituality
AuthorRob Bell
ISBN0310263468
From Rob Bell, the author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Love Wins and a Christian pastor named by Time Magazine as one of the most influential people in 2011, comes Sex God, an enlightening exploration of sexuality and spirituality. With profound beauty and insight, Bell addresses the...
Wrestling with God: Finding Hope and Meaning in Our Daily Struggles to Be Human
AuthorRonald Rolheiser
The bestselling author of The Holy Longing provides an inspiring message of hope and perseverance for all of us struggling with our faith in tumultuous times
 
The last few decades have rapidly birthed a modern world that would have been unrecognizable fifty years ago. As long-held beliefs...
The Genesis of Ethics
AuthorBurton L. Visotzky
ISBN0517702991
Burton L. Visotzky, one of America's most respected scholars of religion, guides readers through a close reading of the narratives of the Book of Genesis, exposing their brutal power and revealing how their moral dilemmas apply to ethical issues we face in our lives today.
Rabbi Visotzky has led...
How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond
AuthorJohn Powell
ISBN0316098302
What makes a musical note different from any other sound? How can you tell if you have perfect pitch? Why do 10 violins sound only twice as loud as one? Do your Bob Dylan albums sound better on CD or vinyl? John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers these questions and many more in HOW MUSIC WORKS, an intriguing...
Un thé dans la toundra / Nipishapui Nete Mushuat
AuthorJosephine Bacon
ISBN2897120959
Après Bâtons à message, Joséphine Bacon nous fait découvrir son territoire de manière plus marquée : la toundra. C’est une expédition où nous sommes guidés à vivre les moindres émotions que procure la toundra. La poésie nous permet d’entrer, de respirer la terre et de fouler ces...
From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ
AuthorPatrick S. Cheng
ISBN1596272384
* Unique synthesis of liberation, queer and postcolonial theologians over the last few decades within a unified theological framework
* Will advance the inclusion of LGBT people within church and society
* Useful resource for all people who struggle to make sense of the traditional Christian...
Beauty
AuthorRoger Scruton
"Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane," writes Roger Scruton. "It can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend."
In a book that is itself...
Why We Need Religion
AuthorStephen T. Asma
ISBN0190469676
How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think. This claim, based on the premise that emotions are largely adaptive, serves as the organizing theme of Why We Need Religion. This book is a novel pathway in a well-trodden field of religious studies and philosophy of religion. Stephen Asma argues...
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