The Fire Within: Desire, Sexuality, Longing, and God

by Ronald Rolheiser

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640606661
• ISBN13: 9781640606661
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 6.8"