Men's Bodies, Men's Gods

Men's Bodies, Men's Gods
Author: Bjorn Krondorfer
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 1996
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0814746691

Men's Bodies, Men's Gods explores the intersection of body, religion, and culture from the specific perspective of male identities. How are male bodies constructed in different historical periods and contexts? How do race, ethnicity, and sexual preference impact on the intersection of male bodies and religious identity? Does Christianity provide models to cope with the aging and ailing male body? Does it provide models for intimacy between men and women? Between men and men? And, how do men reflect the carnal dimensions of power, abuse, and justice?

God's Phallus

God's Phallus
Author: Howard Eilberg-Schwart
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1995-12-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780807012253

God's Phallus explores the dilemmas created by the maleness of God for the men of ancient Judaism and for Jewish men today.

God's Gym

God's Gym
Author: Stephen D. Moore
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1996
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780415917575

In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's Gym is about divinity, physical pain, and the visions of male perfectability. Weaving together his obsession with human anatomy and dissection, an interest in the technologies of torture, the cult of physical culture, and an expert knowledge of biblical criticism, Moore explains the male narcissism at the heart of the biblical God. God's Gym is an intensely personal book, brimming with our culture's phobias and fascinations about male perfectability.

Marriage at the Crossroads

Marriage at the Crossroads
Author: Aída Besançon Spencer
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010-02-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830878548

Have you ever wondered how egalitarian and complementarian marriages play out differently on a day-to-day level? In this unique book AÍda and William Spencer and Steve and Celestia Tracy, two couples from the differing perspectives of egalitarianism and soft complementarianism, share a constructive dialogue about marriage in practice. They cover a variety of topics like marriage discipleship, headship and submission, roles and decision-making, and intimacy in marriage. Also included are responses from three additional cultural frameworks: North American Hispanic, Korean American and African American. Whether you're still working out your views on marriage or have found an approach you're comfortable with, this book will help you better understand the two perspectives on the ground level. While the theological starting points are different, you may be surprised to see the degree of convergence on practical issues as the dialogue unfolds.

Gods Without Men

Gods Without Men
Author: Hari Kunzru
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 386
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307957497

In the desert, you see, there is everything and nothing . . . It is God without men. —Honoré de Balzac, Une passion dans le désert, 1830 Jaz and Lisa Matharu are plunged into a surreal public hell after their son, Raj, vanishes during a family vacation in the California desert. However, the Mojave is a place of strange power, and before Raj reappears inexplicably unharmed—but not unchanged—the fate of this young family will intersect with that of many others, echoing the stories of all those who have traveled before them. Driven by the energy and cunning of Coyote, the mythic, shape-shifting trickster, Gods Without Men is full of big ideas, but centered on flesh-and-blood characters who converge at an odd, remote town in the shadow of a rock formation called the Pinnacles. Viscerally gripping and intellectually engaging, it is, above all, a heartfelt exploration of the search for pattern and meaning in a chaotic universe. This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.

Our Bodies Tell God's Story

Our Bodies Tell God's Story
Author: Christopher West
Publisher: Brazos Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1493422480

In response to a world awash in sexual chaos and gender confusion, this book offers a bold and thoroughly biblical look at the meaning of the body, sex, gender, and marriage. Bestselling author, cultural commentator, and popular theologian Christopher West is one of the world's most recognized teachers of John Paul II's Theology of the Body. He specializes in making this teaching accessible to all Christians, with particular attention to evangelicals. As West explains, from beginning to end the Bible tells a story of marriage. It begins with the marriage of man and woman in an earthly paradise and ends with the marriage of Christ and the church in an eternal paradise. In our post-sexual-revolution world, we need to remember that our bodies tell a divine story and proclaim the gospel itself. As male and female and in the call to become "one flesh," our bodies reveal a "great mystery" that mirrors Christ's love for the church (Eph. 5:31-32). This book provides a redemptive rather than repressive approach to sexual purity, explores the true meaning of sex and marriage, and offers a compelling vision of what it means to be created male and female. Foreword by Eric Metaxas.

Of Gods and Men - Volume 1 - The End of the Beginning

Of Gods and Men - Volume 1 - The End of the Beginning
Author: Jean-Pierre Dionnet
Publisher: Europe Comics
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2019-05-15T00:00:00+02:00
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

The world turned upside down in 1929, starting in the United States. As the Great Depression shook the nation, so-called "gods" began to appear along Route 66, and quickly grew in number. With humankind slowly dying out, history then took a different course... This is the story "of gods and men," set in the year 2047.

God's Gym

God's Gym
Author: John Edgar Wideman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2005
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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