Title : Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ Category: Sex
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Before you can resolve the issues of our day, you must be able to clarify them.
Terms like same-sex marriage, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gay Christian are parts of daily discourse, yet enormous controversy surrounds them. They are the stuff of news headlines and vitriolic social media posts. But they also reflect stirrings of the heart in real people with real questions and concerns.
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, once a leftist professor in a committed lesbian relationship and now a confessional Christian, but always the thoughtful and compassionate professor, has written a follow-up to The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert. This book answers many of the questions people pose when she speaks at universities and churches, questions not only about her unlikely conversion to Christ but about personal struggles that the questioners only dare to ask someone else who has traveled a long and painful journey.
Dr. Butterfield not only goes to great lengths to clarify some of today's key controversies; she also traces their history and defines the terms that have become second nature today - even going back to God's original design for marriage and sexuality as found in the Bible. She cuts to the heart of the problems and points the way to the solution, which includes a challenge to the church to be all that God intended it to be and for each person to find the true freedom that is found in Christ.
Chapters include:
- Conversion: The Spark of a New Identity
- Identity: The Flame of Our Union in Christ
- Repentance: The Threshold to God and the Answer to Shame, Temptation, and Sin
- Sexual Orientation: Freud's 19th-Century Category Mistake
- Self-Representation: What Does It Mean to Be "Gay"?
- Conflict: When Sisters Disagree
- Community: Representing Christ to the World
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Very important subject matter in a very desperate time.
Beautiful writing, spiritual insights, a humane voice with a timely book--but poorly formatted Kindle version.
Acts 28:30-31 --And he stayed two full years in his own rented quarters and was welcoming all who came to him, preaching the kingdom of God and teaching concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all openness, unhindered.
Taking the title from the last verses of Acts--Openness "implies we hold nothing back from the God who made us and will take care of us." Unhindered "means that we are unencumbered by our failures."-- Rosaria Butterfield yet again, with clear and beautiful prose, gives us insights into Biblical truths and life lessons from her very own, unique, and fascinating life. It's about more than homosexuality or sexual sin--though it certainly deals with this intensely. It's about who we really are. Butterfield writes: "The root of my lesbianism was pride. The root of my heterosexual sin was pride as well." To know the root of our sin requires Scriptures' truth. To know who we are--our true identity--we must know the God who made us and gave us...
BEST BOOK on Homosexuality and Sexual Identity since the Closing of Exodus International.
This is the most important book I have read on Christian doctrine of how grace works on our lives in general, but especially as applied to the struggle with unwanted homosexual desire. The intense inner battle between the authority of the Bible and the appeal of what the culture would have strugglers believe about who they are is clarified. A final outcome of reading this book for the individual struggler offers profound inner peace and faith-affirming hope. Rosaria's book does NOT offer false expectations or reflect a shallow understanding of homosexuality. As someone who has lived intensely on both sides of this issue, she is expertly situated and verbally gifted to address this difficult issue. She shows the historical roots of Freud's definition of personal identity in sexual terms and contrasts it to the Biblical definitions of who we are in Christ. Although OPENNESS UNHINDERED has a much broader application to how the Christian life can be lived through God's power, it is...
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