Christ and Sexuality: Some Consequences | Inhabitatio Dei.
Let us be absolutely clear on this point. If Christ is truly the fullness and definition of authentic humanity, we must say categorically that marriage, sex, and parenthood tell us nothing whatsoever of ultimate significance about humanness. If marriage, sex, and parenthood are somehow the fullness of humanity
we are forced to say that Christ, far from being the true human as the
Christian tradition proclaims, was in fact, sub-human.
Good stuff. See
Why Sex Doesn’t Matter | Inhabitatio Dei as well.
HT:
Faith and Theology: Why sex tells you nothing about what it means to be human where Ben concludes:
So what’s the upshot of all this? For one thing, I think Christians ought to take much more seriously the category of
friendship, while thinking a good deal more critically about the unbridled theologisation of
marriage
and the so-called “family unit”. Is it at least possible that the idle
carefree banter of friendship might tell us more about “what it means
to be human” than any anxious confession of one’s darkest sexual
longings or secrets? Might friendship itself – so lacking in anxiety,
so free and undemanding – provide a much-needed critique of our
culture’s profound sexual anxiety, an anxiety which is simply part and
parcel of the dubious (and ultimately
theological) doctrine that the truth of our humanness is disclosed in the truth of sex?
See also the comments. On Ben's "saint egregious" wrote good stuff including:
We do need to recover a healthy theology of sexuality. Not Driscoll
(let his words on this subject be anathema!) but more like Coakley and
Williams of "The Body's Grace"
I also fear that saying we talk
about sex too much can be a strategy of repressing the voices of gays
and lesbians in the church who are fighting for full inclusion. "We've
heard enough about all this God and sex stuff. Why are you 'americans'
so obsessed with it.' That's the very opposite of the theological
integrity Williams champions, but I am afraid I see more than enough of
it in my circles.
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