Christ and Sexuality: Some Consequences

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.