Eros Defiled: The Christian and Sexual Sin

by John White

Overview

Something happened to love—eros, physical love—when mankind fell. The beauty was marred. The joy was tinged with sadness. Eros was defiled. Today the results of the Fall are evident in premartial sex, extramartial sex, masturbation, homosexuality, and various forms of twisted sex. John White speaks with understanding and compassion about each of these sexual sins. He concludes with a telling chapter of how local churches can be communities for dealing with sexual sin in a context of love and forgiveness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780877847816
Publisher:	InterVarsity Press
Publication date:	03/01/1977
Edition description:	Special Edition
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

John White was a medical missionary with New Tribes Mission and later associate general secretary of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students of Latin America. He served as associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba and also helped lead churches in Winnipeg and Vancouver. Before he died in 2002 he had written more than two dozen books including The Fight and Daring to Draw Near.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Sin, Sex You
1. Sex, Science and Morality
2. Your Urges How You Experience Them

Part II: Sexual Sins
3. Sex on a Desert Island
4. The Freedom that Enslaves
5. The Scarlet Letter
6. Two Halves Do Not Make One Whole
7. Deeds Done in the Dark

Part III: The Church Sexual Sin
8. The Discipline That Heals

Notes