Product Title:
Sex God: Exploring the Endless Connections between Sexuality & Spirituality
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Introduction: This is really about Chapter One: God wears lipstick Chapter Two: Sexy on the Inside Chapter Three: Angels & Animals Chapter Four: Leather, Whips & Fruit Chapter Five: She ran into the Girls’ Bathroom Chapter Six: Worth Dying For Chapter Seven: Under the chuppah Chapter Eight: Johnny & June Chapter Nine: Whoopee Forever Epilogue: More Balloons, Please Endnotes / Resources / Discussion
Above all, this book is not so much that in spite of the title. The title is almost immediately they are an anti-climax for the rest of the book. The title is a good marketing, but not necessarily truth in advertising. That’s ok. With the purchase of this book is not about that.
Think about why you bought it first. You bought it, because you really like Rob Bell, and in your spirit guide you through conversations that you would love him if you have two hang at Starbucks, which I am sure he will have time for. Because that’s what it is, only say that you get the next best thing. You’re hanging with him. It is about what to talk to the heart. You get in. Even if it is a monologue, it is kind of scratches that all of his fans were to hear with scabies.
So for this reason it is a pretty good book.
In line with the postmodern, disavow emergent ethos, which Bell leads while the book is not linear. It begins with an introduction which deals with the sacramental provocative without achieved with this word, and then a powerful first chapter that in our deepest longings for the dignity, for which we were created. Soon we are on board and want more. Especially in the hope that he gets the sex
The second chapter skirts around our “separation” of the created order, which surprised if we, through a systematic theology of creation , sin are on foot, Salvation (I was soon dissuaded) does. I also asked if we had taken on a neo-Tillichian doctrine of sin-as-victimization, but I do not think the book wanted to theology quite like that.
third chapter I like even better than a modern discourse on the first three chapters of Genesis and the thoughtful proposal that our sexuality is poised between our place as animals and angels, as a physical and spiritual beings. Now I’m really into this book. Chapter four times with the temptations and addictions that throw us off course from that dignity, we wanted at first. The fifth chapter deals with our Reaching Out for love to fix the hurt, represented by the clever and playful depiction of a little girl on the run from Rob Bell when he asked her to dance in the Junior High. I think we supposed to say: “Oh, good choice, girlie, look where you would be now.” The cross is God’s act to make himself vulnerable to our rejection in the same way.
Now here is the break. From here on, the structure is not entirely clear to me, and what I read, on other reviewers. Six pairs is about to have to submit to each other rather than women to men. Seven is (subtly) about retaining the mystery of sex in marriage. Eight is about loyalty, is nine implied analogy between heaven and marital intimacy, and ten is an offer of forgiveness for those who have failed.
Then I realized what I read. It is not systematic theology, it is the wait emergent “Why?” Program. Which is fine. I just wanted to hang out with Rob Bell, and when I got the chance he had sex in the head. Cool. I like to hear him, what he’s talking about are.
My only two suggestions for his third book. First, the endnotes, not cute, and it is not impressive to see how many books you can recommend to you. They bore through a book that already requires attention. Second, do not Pensees must be published in hardback at twice the cost of a paperback book.
This aside, it is a worthwhile recommendation for suspended religious, do not really understand Christian mores regarding physical intimacy.
Rating: 5.4
I agree with other reviewers that the title of the book is misleading (if this is a mirror image of the clever marketing or Rob Bell’s uber-creative mood is debatable). This is wrong calling unfortunate because I think it confuses the reader (including me) to the overall objective of the book. But a simple addition of a “/” makes the track more precisely: “Sex / God.” As Bell emphasizes in his introduction, “This” (sexuality, intimacy, marriage) is always about “That” (God and his loving relationship with humanity).
When reading this way, I think the book is always consistent and convincing. In fact, I think it is one of the most impressive theological statements about love, marriage and intimacy that I have read. to defend instead of the typical, predictable flat Christian responses to the traditional marriage and sexual purity, Bell sees a sweeping vision of how our intimate relationships reflect the self-giving love of our Creator. Not only that, but our self-sacrificing love for another person actually helps to manifest God’s love to many other people. Even the pain of a failed relationship reflects God feels the pain and the risk of loving God takes us humans. Bell asks us to, by sex, to think of intimacy, and marriage in the most holy and reverent – but even in the most realistic and practical – way.
With all this ” Sex God “cleverly and subtly tells us something so much about” God “as she makes about” sex. ” While we think that we read about human relations, we find ourselves learning about the gospel – God’s love for us supreme, manifested most clearly in the self-sacrificing love of Jesus. “This is” really about “That.”
“Sex God” is biblically based, yet never in a predictable manner. I always enjoy Bell’s trademark use of the living cultural context. His exegesis on the first chapters of Genesis and the last verses of Revelation were particularly interesting, and it provides new insights into many well-known passages.
I guess also show Bell’s final pages, the sensitivity people who are not married or, without sounding condescending. After a whole book praising the virtues of giving Godly fully to another person, Bell recalls one man that, after Jesus himself, they actually have a higher calling than the rest of us. And he also offers hope for people who have experienced abuse and have relationships.
Much more could be said here, but suffice it to say that I am very excited about this book with my two teenage children and college students share the Clock with whom I work. And I immediately assigned the book a couple for our premarital counseling. “Sex God” which is good.
Rating: 5.5
This is my first book by Rob Bell read and it will probably be my last. It is not a bad book, but Bell just seems an inch away from the target. I would read two or three pages and be able to follow his argument and then he would make a point, was simply taken away in the left pane. I know a lot of people like him, perhaps because he had this strange and sometimes makes unbliblical statements (or at least riding the fence), you just stretch to turn your head.
Certain things like where he says that meant in the Old Testament sex were you married, because if I raped a girl man, he had to marry her. From here he makes the conclusion that God can not be against cohabitation if the spouse sincere and loyal to each other. He said it: “Sex, in the ancient world was the marriage.” I only see that as unbiblical because for the very reason that the relationship between marriage and sex, the man must now be forced to recognize and respect that will link severed. It is not about sex is like to be married, it is that marriage and sex are connected and if you disconnect and deny this connection, they deny their sacred nature of the two. It is all as it is another example in almost every chapter, where he is a little off.
, Where he says that is sexual or intimate connected with another. I like what Rich Mullins much better when he said that we think made the mistake in this generation, that its have sex with someone, we need intimate said, Christ was very intimate with people, but he never had sex. I think what Bell is using the word “sexuality” to do, which has in it the implication of the connection, and says it is not about sexual physicality. With Bell’s definition is a logical conclusion that Jesus would be very sexual, even though he never had sex. I also think it may just be Bell trying to be controversial, and the change in the connotation of the term “sexual” and thus increase a few eyebrows. If you want a good book about Christianity and sex, look elsewhere (“Real Sex” by Lauren Winner or something), he just has not quite get it, I think.
Philip
Rating: 5.2
Yes, it is in this book about it.
Rob Bell delves into the connection between our sexuality and our spirituality, and the result is a work that your eyes to looking for the relationship God with humanity is opened.
The basic assumption is that we are all broken, always looking to connect with others, since our connection with God was severed. We all want to be known and accepted as we are. Only God can provide us with this, but sex is the next best thing. So we all walk around with distorted notions of who we are, searching for that connection by physical rather than spiritual relationship is.
The book captivating and Bell has a talent for Teaching with stories (sound familiar?). He is able to Biblical history, Jewish customs and contemporary culture weave together to want to form a picture of the relationship of God with humanity. I particularly enjoyed a passage on page 70 describes this garden of Eden as well and it really good, it could not be forced on people. So that the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
A few points of criticism, but:
On page 63 describes the universe as a bell unfinished. He claims that “to continue God’s purpose in creating these people for them the work of the creation of the world, they move away from the chaos and wild and waste, and lack of form in the direction of order and harmony, and good.”
I just can not agree with this statement. When God created the universe, it was good. He rested on the seventh day, satisfied with his creation. There were “order and harmony and good.” Then we, the humanity, it screws up. I get the essence of what he says, but the statement simply makes no sense.
The other problem on pages 20 and 22 Bell describes a passage in which Jesus says: “If you stumble to your right eye thee, pluck it out and throw it away.” Bell later states “and that is Jesus’ point with the” gouge out your eye “doctrine. His point isn ‘t that you have to mutilate your body, if you lust for someone to find. His point is that something very serious – sometimes hellish happens – when people are treated as objects, and we should resist at all costs. “(P. 22)
I agree with him about his thoughts on the people (especially women) are treated as objects, but I do not think Jesus just say that bad things happen is when we sin. For me, Jesus calls us to a higher level of spirituality. He goes on to say that it is better to parts of the body, than lose your soul (lose paraphrased). This means that one life to God dedicated to a neglect of the means. (Read more about this in The Humble Way blog) I think Bell slightly twisted a verse to fit his theme.
Bell is also reluctant to the author not the letter names such as 1st Corinthians, etc. I know why, and it is no big deal. I’m just wondering why. And, on a small note, this guy falls geographical names like Carmen San Diego:
“… I was in Canada .. “” … lived in a wildlife lodge in Africa. “” I was in London … These are just some of the examples. I’m just saying, dude travels a lot. Maybe I’m jealous.
But seriously, this is a book that I would really recommend for money, and it is also worth your time. Some people criticize Rob Bell for theologically weak, and I can see their point of view. I would not go to him for Bible commentary. But he definitely has an insight into the relationships, especially those to reveal about the people and God. Read this awaits the relational side of love of God.
Rating: 5.5
As a non-Christian, I found this book puzzling. Not sure who the target audience: young people? Adults? I like thought-provoking books of various theologies, but this annoyed me.
The author begins anecdotes and not completed. In Chapter 1, there is a touching story about a prostitute, the priest comes with detailed plans for suicide, and she wants to know if they go to heaven or hell. It is shown that she has a daughter named Faith, so the pastor feels a connection with the suicidal prostitute. And that’s the point of the story.
But as a reader, I cared not worry about his epiphany, I’m on the prostitute. Did she live or die, and not even know the pastor? Many of the stories are illustrative of it. The point made in the author mind you wham it over his head, as it will be as important to you, how was it him, and then the flesh and blood person behind it is forgotten.
< , br /> choppy. Writing. Here are some examples of entire paragraphs:
“happens all the time.”
“And the eyes.”
“Him to her presentation.”
Sorry, but this is fake-youth and hip. Bad writing. Power, not you. Relevant.
Finally, can the author’s theology of sex, I think, can in this way: The animals have no spirits, they are body without spirit. Angels have no bodies, they are spirits without bodies. People have both minds and bodies, we must not treat sex as just physical or just mental. (Then he points out, may prove as celibate, a life of high sexuality.)
Return to the Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, a book I am much more enjoyed a book in which the author reveals his own struggles, and not just pick out snippets of the lives of other people to illustrate his points.
Rating: 5.2