Holiness and Desire - by Jessica Martin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Holiness and Desire is a wise and profound exploration, using the tools of Christian theology but also those of culture criticism, literary analysis and memoir.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>What if the problem with desire is not that we want what we can't have, but that we don't want it enough? What if it's in the gap between wanting and having that desire does the work which keeps us longing, yearning, hoping, burning, hungering, thirsting, calling, praying? A world that promises satisfaction is one that sells us imitations of our desires, and tempts us to settle for them.<br /> <br /> This is the world in which we find ourselves, and Holiness and Desire is a wise and profound exploration of it, using the tools of Christian theology but also those of culture criticism, literary analysis and memoir. Here, the church's internal debates about sexuality are only one symptom of a larger unease over our whole relationship with desire.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'Illuminating, challenging and liberating - a vital part of the conversation about the way we live now.'--Sarah Perry, prizewinning author of The Essex Serpent.<br><br>'Profound yet simple; robust yet vulnerable. Reading it is like reflecting on life and one's own story in front of an amazing piece of art'.--Rachel Treweek<br><br>'The weaving together of scholarship, personal narrative, history and scripture is a faithful, needed and ultimately redemptive offering to us all.'--Nadia Bolz-Weber, author of New York Times bestseller Shameless<br><br>'This book knocks right through the various 'official stories' which we tell ourselves, inside and outside churches. Reading it strengthens my feeling that the decline of Christendom has opened the way for a remarkable flowering of new avenues towards the faith'.--Charles Taylor, Templeton prizewinner and author of A Secular Age<br>
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