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Author : Chuck Gallagher
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book The Celibacy Myth written by Chuck Gallagher and published by Crossroad Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles A. Gallagher
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 : 9780854392957
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (929 download)
Download or read book The Celibacy Myth written by Charles A. Gallagher and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best and most positive approach to celibacy that I have ever reviewed. ...." [from back cover]
Author : Charles A. Gallagher
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780824509422
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)
Download or read book The Celibacy Myth written by Charles A. Gallagher and published by Crossroad Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles A. Gallagher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788171090587
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Loving for Life written by Charles A. Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. W. Richard Sipe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313347263
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book The Serpent and the Dove written by A. W. Richard Sipe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-10-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Sipe, himself a former monk and priest, has made a lifelong venture of determining the reality and meaning of religious celibacy. Even an adequate operational definition of religious celibacy, he says, has been avoided by Catholic hierarchy and scholars to preserve the celibate myth. Having spent 25 years conducting a study of celibacy and sexual behavior in Roman Catholic priests, Sipe concluded that at any one time no more than 50 percent of priests were practicing celibacy. To more fully understand what celibacy is, how it is practiced, the affect it has on the humanness of men of women, and the social effects it presents, Sipe says we can use the approach presented in this book. Specifically, we can analyze historic men who presented themselves or were perceived as living examples of celibacy and also focus on the most profound truths of celibacy found in literary accounts. Psychology, religion, and literary criticism interface and are woven together in this book with minimal jargon. The Serpent and the Dove was written in the hope of exciting honest analysis of the essence of religious celibacy and to foster a recrudescence of authentic sexual vigor with all of its evolutionary potential. Human sexuality is not going away; nor is it irrelevant to the wellbeing, progress and happiness of the human community, says Sipe. And the practice of genuine celibacy is not going to disappear either. No question, the Catholic Church needs profound reformation. But in all my work I have chosen not to throw any babies out with the horrendously dirty 'holy water' the church continues to treasure and disseminate. Here, as in all my work, I try to foster dialogue between religion and science, such as literary criticism. The Catholic Church (and religion) is at a Copernican Moment when it has to cede to science the nature of sexuality. The Serpent and the Dove is one more work among Sipe's many books and articles making the need for that clear.
Author : Sam Allberry
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433561557
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)
Download or read book 7 Myths about Singleness written by Sam Allberry and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If marriage shows us the shape of the gospel, singleness shows us its sufficiency. Much of what we commonly assume about singleness—that it is primarily about the absence of good things like intimacy, family, or meaningful ministry—is either flat-out untrue or, at the very least, shouldn’t be true. To be single, we often think, is to be alone and spiritually hindered. But the Bible paints a very different picture of singleness: it is a positive gift and blessing from God. This book seeks to help Christians—married and unmarried alike—value singleness as a gift from God so that we can all encourage singles to take hold of the unique opportunities their singleness affords and see their role in the flourishing of the church as a whole.
Author : Kurt Gassner
Publisher : Trendguide Capital / My- Mindguide
ISBN 13 : 9783987939204
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (392 download)
Download or read book Destiny Celibacy written by Kurt Gassner and published by Trendguide Capital / My- Mindguide. This book was released on 2022-10-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncover Truths About Celibacy For Aging People And Improve Your Sexual Life With This Comprehensive Book! Are you a man or woman over the age of 55 who still has a desire for sexual life? Do you want to awaken the passion between yourself and your partner? Do you feel ''guilty'' because you still have a sexual desire? Now You Can Transform Your Sexual Life And Live A Life Of Pleasure With ''Destiny Celibacy'' By Kurt Gassner! Sexual intimacy, experiences, identity, and behavior are important for well-being and health across the lifespan. Sex and sexuality communicate a great deal - affection, love, esteem, warmth, sharing, and bonding. These gifts are as much the right of older adults as they are of those who are much younger. Pleasure and interest in sex do not diminish with age. Age alone is no reason to change the sexual practices that you have enjoyed throughout your life. In this book, Kurt Gassner is going to answer many of your unanswered questions regarding sexuality after the age of 50, reveal shocking truths, help you better your life and live a life of pleasure with your spouse no matter your age! Top 5 Reasons To Read This Life-Changing Book Today: ✔️ Explore The Evolution Of Sex And The Concept Of Sexuality ✔️ Uncover Truths About Celibacy And Get Your Questions Answered ✔️ Learn How To Get An Older Woman In The Mood ✔️ Learn What Self Love Is And Why It's Important To Practice It ✔️ Discover How Hypnotherapy Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life And That's Not All! Within the pages of this informative book, you will also find a bonus chapter about sexual aids for older adults as well as tips to address your sexuality! Scroll Up, Click ''Add To Cart'' Now & Take Your Sexual Health In Your Hands!
Author : Mark A. Yarhouse
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310521424
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Costly Obedience written by Mark A. Yarhouse and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though we often hear about the "gay problem" today, there is an even deeper problem in the church today--one that we often overlook. The call to follow Christ is a call to costly obedience for all, not just for gay Christians. Far too often, the church has elevated homosexuality above other sins and required a costly obedience from gays that it is unwilling to demand of others. And yet, the answer is not to weaken the demands of obedience. Instead, gay Christians who make the difficult choice to align their lives with the biblical view of sexuality are a gift to the church, reminding all of us that spiritual growth and maturity is costly. There is a price to pay in following Christ and devoting our lives to the call of the gospel, and it is one that we all must pay--gay and straight Christians alike. Through the stories and struggles of gay Christians who are reorienting their lives around the costly obedience required to follow Christ, Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets call the church to reorient as well, leaving behind the casual morality that is widespread today to pursue the path of radical discipleship. Unlike any other book on homosexuality and the church, this is a call to examine your life and consider what God is asking you to lay down to take up your cross and follow him.
Author : A.W. Richard Sipe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134851413
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book A Secret World written by A.W. Richard Sipe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Secret World is a valuable contribution to the field of Family Therapy. Looks at the history and origins of celibacy, discusses its role in the priesthood, and considers the psychological aspects of celibacy.
Author : Julia Leslie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136778810
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Myth and Mythmaking written by Julia Leslie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays focusing on some of the ways in which myths have been made, and made to function, in the rich cultural history of India from the dawn of history through to the present day.
Author : Carl R. Triebs
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 141202871X
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)
Download or read book "About Celibacy, I Have No Instructions from the Lord" written by Carl R. Triebs and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insistence on clerical celibacy was established in much of the Western Church beginning in the Fourth Century. It expanded slowly and unevenly throughout Late Antiquity and the early middle ages and at the Second Lateran Council in 1139 became Church Law. This Law of Celibacy decreed that Holy Orders were a absolute impediment to any in the higher clerical orders attempting to contract marriage. Any such marriage was automatically null and void in the eyes of the Church.
Author : Dale Launderville
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814657346
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Celibacy in the Ancient World written by Dale Launderville and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celibacy is a commitment to remain unmarried and to renounce sexual relations, for a limited period or for a lifetime. Such a commitment places an individual outside human society in its usual form, and thus questions arise: What significance does such an individual, and such a choice, have for the human family and community as a whole? Is celibacy possible? Is there a socially constructive role for celibacy? These questions guide Dale Launderville, OSB, in his study of celibacy in the ancient cultures of Israel, Mesopotamia, and Greece prior to Hellenism and the rise of Christianity. Launderville focuses especially on literary witnesses, because those enduring texts have helped to shape modern attitudes and can aid us in understanding the factors that may call forth the practice of celibacy in our own time. Readers will discover how celibacy fits within a context of relationships, and what kinds of relationships thus support a healthy and varied society, one aware of and oriented to its cosmic destiny. Dale Launderville, OSB, is professor of theology at Saint John's University School of Theology/Seminary, Collegeville, Minnesota. He is the author of Piety and Politics: The Dynamics of Royal Authority in Homeric Greece, Biblical Israel, and Old Babylonian Mesopotamia (Eerdmans, 2003) and Spirit and Reason: The Embodied Character of Ezekiel's Symbolic Thinking (Baylor University Press, 2007).
Author : Jacqueline Guthrie
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365208532
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (652 download)
Download or read book Celibacy... Til Death or Marriage Do We Part written by Jacqueline Guthrie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God designed us to live life to the full no matter the marital status..... While society suggests otherwise, it is possible to be victorious and committed to living single God's way whether you get married or remain single. Find out today how to be the best that you can be for God in all circumstances.
Author : Christopher Kaczor
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681495546
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)
Download or read book The Seven Big Myths about the Catholic Church written by Christopher Kaczor and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman Catholic Church has long been the target of suspicion and hostility. But how much of this is based on ignorance and prejudice and how much is the fruit of thoughtful consideration of the facts? This book separates fact from fiction. Without excusing or justifying wrongdoing, author Christopher Kaczor clarifies official Catholic teaching and demonstrates that much popular opinion about Catholicism is based on misunderstanding and misinformation. He also provides robust and lucid arguments for Catholic belief and practice. No one book can answer everyone's questions or objections about Catholicism, but this work examines seven of the most controversial and most common myths about the Catholic Church. The Seven Myths: The Church Opposes Science: The Myth of Catholic Irrationality The Church Opposes Freedom and Happiness: The Myth of Catholic Indifference to Earthly Welfare The Church Hates Women: The Myth of Catholic Misogyny Indifferent to Love, the Church Banned Contraception: The Myth of Opposition between Love and Procreation The Church Hates Gays: The Myth of Catholic "Homophobia" The Church Opposes Same-Sex Marriage Because of Bigotry: The Myth That There Is No Rational Basis for Limiting Marriage to One Man and One Woman Priestly Celibacy Caused the Crisis of Sexual Abuse of Minors: The Myth of Priestly Pedophilia
Author : Heinz-Jürgen Vogels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781556126536
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Celibacy written by Heinz-Jürgen Vogels and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1993 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catholic Church is at present tearing itself to pieces over the issue of the law of clerical celibacy. It might seem to some only a marginal or administrative problem, but it in fact goes to the heart of the matter on every side of modern church life. It is, of course, first of all an issue of sexuality, originall deriving from a beleife that all sex produces moral impurity. But it has gone on to become an issue about power, about pastoral care, and about sheer honesty. The publication in English of Vogel's scholaraly study of the subject is immensely to be welcomed. -from the Foreword byAdrien Hastings
Author : William Skudlarek
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814639976
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Demythologizing Celibacy written by William Skudlarek and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When St. Benedict compiled his Rule for Monasteries in the early decades of the sixth century, the Buddhist monastic code had already been in existence for about nine hundred years. Since monastic life is shaped by spiritual practices that are very similar across different religious traditions, it should not be too much of a stretch to suggest that Christians can learn from the accumulated wisdom of Buddhist monasticism. For Buddhists, celibacy, accompanied by skillful reflection on their personal reactions to it, is a means of letting go of attachment to sensory pleasure. Buddhist monks do not marry; they strive to relinquish the desire for sexual pleasure because this form of gratification obstructs the one-pointed stillness that leads to insight. For Christians, celibacy—like marriage—is ultimately about love: responding to God's love for us and expressing selfless love for others. In light of the Christian understanding of marriage as an authentic—indeed, the ordinary—path to holiness, Skudlarek proposes a demythologized view of celibacy, presenting it as an alternate and equally valid spiritual practice for those who choose not to accept the demands of a committed sexual relationship. Drawing on the monastic interreligious dialogue, Skudlarek considers the Buddhist view of celibacy, which is not mythologized as a response to a divine call or as a superhuman way of life. He examines their regard for it as simply—and profoundly—a path to freedom, peace, and happiness. As Christians become aware of the benefits of celibacy for monks who observe it without reference to the Gospel, they may be able to appreciate all the more its importance and value for those who wish to follow Christ as celibates, and in this way come to share in the freedom of the children of God.
Author : Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9780892818709
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (187 download)
Download or read book Indian Mythology written by Devdutt Pattanaik and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a fresh understanding of the Hindu spirtual landscapes and pantheon of gods and goddesses through 99 classic myths.
