Part I: Property, purity and practices -- Body ownership and dirty deeds in the Old Testament -- Jesus defies convention -- Was Paul purposely trying to confuse us? -- Competition for control of the early Church -- The church fathers freak out about sex -- Protestant property, purity, and practices -- Is there a new body ethic in the New World? -- Part II: Let's talk issues -- Sex : is sexual purity a Christian oxymoron? -- Nonmarital sexuality : can celibacy be a spiritual discipline? -- Abortion : is this a body-ownership debate? -- Same-sex sex : is homosexuality an abomination or an alternative lifestyle? -- Part III: Sex scandals in the church -- Rape -- Sexual abuse of children -- Sexual addiction.
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