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Sex and the Sacred

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2024

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In order to talk theologically about sex, we have to look at the place which sex has in the divine plan, in the revelation of God. It might be imagined that we could explain what God has revealed to us about sex so that we could compare or contrast it with what Freud or D. H. Lawrence or Dr Kinsey has to say about sex. But this would not be quite accurate: what we want to discover is not what God says about sex, but what sex as interpreted by the Old Testament, by Christ and by the sacraments, has to show us about God.

We may begin with a poem which has been inserted at the very beginning of the Bible. Its opening lines give us the theme of the poem ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.’ It is to be a poem about what creation means.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © 1961 Provincial Council of the English Province of the Order of Preachers

References

1 The substance of the first of three talks on Christianity and Sex, given in Cambridge 1961.

2 These topics were dealt with in the tow following lectures which are shortly to be Published in Blackfriars