Damaged Goods: New Perspectives on Christian Purity

by Dianna Anderson

Overview

Dianna Anderson offers a fresh approach to the purity conversation, one that opens a new dialogue with the most influential Christian authors of her generation.



Anderson's new sexual ethics draw on core biblical principles and set a standard for today's Christians that may be as influential Joshua Harris' I Kissed Dating Goodbye, Don Raunikar's Choosing God's Best, and Elisabeth Elliot's Passion and Purity.

Anderson uses her own illuminating experience with the purity movement to:

• Reach out to women and men trying to reconcile their own sexuality with their understanding of "what God wants," cultural stigma, and media pressures
• Demonstrate how Christian ideas about purity have infiltrated American politics and culture-and why women are losing
• Offer an affirmative, healing path for everyone to understand their sexuality: one that reconciles scripture, culture, and common sense

Provocative and engaging, she will revolutionize the way you think about sex, abstinence, politics, and faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455577392
Publisher:	FaithWords
Publication date:	02/10/2015
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Dianna Anderson is a twenty-seven-year-old blogger, and a line producer for ReFrame Media's Spotlight show, a radio program aimed at ESL listeners around the world. Although she works for the Christian Reformed Church of North America in the media ministry branch, she is not Reformed herself. She currently hosts a popular blog, Faith and Feminism, and has a growing online platform. She has a Master of the Arts in English from Baylor University and a Bachelor of the Arts in theology and philosophy from the University of Sioux Falls. Dianna lives in Chicago, IL.

Table of Contents

1 I Was a Teenage Virgin 1

3 A Review of the Christian Purity Movement 9

3 Let's Get Biblical: Sex in Scripture 23

4 How I Kind of Sort of Lost My Virginity 43

5 Approaching Sexuality with Intention 53

6 Beyond Rings and Roles 59

7 Your Body, Your Choices 77

8 The Question of Individual Rights 103

9 Choosing Celibacy 121

10 Getting to Know Yourself 131

11 Yes Means Yes: Healthy Boundaries Mean Healthy Lives 147

12 Only You Can Define Your Sexuality 171

13 Sex Without Shame 185

Epilogue 201

Acknowledgments 205

Notes 207