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J. Harold Ellens ; foreword by Donald Capps ; preface by Wayne G. Rollins
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The psychology and spirituality of sex -- The Bible, sex, and moralization -- God's sexuality: deity, gender, and sexual design in creation -- Falling in and out of love -- Making love: celebrating sex -- Making babies: purposes of sex -- Sin and seduction: Adam, Eve, and sex problems -- Old Testament sex laws: women as property versus women as agents of their destiny -- Adultery: sex and marriage -- Monogamy: models and meanings -- Homosexuality: what does the Bible say in the Old Testament? -- Homosexuality: what does the Bible say in the New Testament? -- Bad sex: incest, pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia, rape, and sodomy -- Sex and love: the real thing -- Sex and shalom: what God had in mind