Holiness and Desire by Jessica Martin
What if the problem with desire is not that we want what we cant have, but that we dont want it enough? What if desire itself - the gap between wanting and having - is the key to living well? Holiness and Desire explores these questions, considering what a distinctive holiness might look like in our highly sexualized modern culture.
‘Illuminating, challenging and liberating - a vital part of the conversation about the way we live now’ -- Sarah Perry, prizewinning author of The Essex Serpent.
'The weaving together of scholarship, personal narrative, history and scripture is a faithful, needed and ultimately redemptive offering to us all.' -- Nadia Bolz-Weber, author of New York Times bestseller Shameless
'This book knocks right through the various 'official stories' which we tell ourselves, inside and outside churches. Reading it strengthens my feeling that the decline of Christendom has opened the way for a remarkable flowering of new avenues towards the faith’. -- Charles Taylor, Templeton prizewinner and author of A Secular Age
'Profound yet simple; robust yet vulnerable. Reading it is like reflecting on life and one’s own story in front of an amazing piece of art’. -- Rachel Treweek
'The weaving together of scholarship, personal narrative, history and scripture is a faithful, needed and ultimately redemptive offering to us all.' -- Nadia Bolz-Weber, author of New York Times bestseller Shameless
'This book knocks right through the various 'official stories' which we tell ourselves, inside and outside churches. Reading it strengthens my feeling that the decline of Christendom has opened the way for a remarkable flowering of new avenues towards the faith’. -- Charles Taylor, Templeton prizewinner and author of A Secular Age
'Profound yet simple; robust yet vulnerable. Reading it is like reflecting on life and one’s own story in front of an amazing piece of art’. -- Rachel Treweek
Jessica Martin was formerly a Fellow in English Literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, and is now a Canon of Ely Cathedral. She was a theological adviser to the Bishops’ working Party on Human Sexuality and is a member of the influential Littlemore group of theologians.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781786221261 |
| ISBN 10 | 1786221268 |
| Title | Holiness and Desire |
| Author | Jessica Martin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canterbury Press Norwich |
| Year published | 2020-06-30 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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