__Faithful Discipleship in a Hypersexualized World__   
"There are few issues in life that confront each of us like human sexuality. Every person struggles with making sense of relationships, eros, and longings, emotional as well as physical. Every man and woman wrestles with the lies of sensualized culture while holding at bay the effects of pervasive isolation and intense loneliness. In Divine Sex Jonathan Grant guides us through this journey with wit, grace, and honesty while being both wholly theological and profoundly real."  
--__Chap Clark__, senior pastor, St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Newport Beach, California  
  
"An exceptionally important and timely book. The gap between what passes for sexual and relational wisdom in contemporary culture and what actually makes for genuine human fulfillment has opened up so quickly and grown so wide that the lives of an entire generation are sliding headlong into frustration and despair. Grant addresses the issues directly yet sympathetically, countering contemporary folly with solid data, biblical wisdom, and grace. I wish it could be made mandatory reading for the entire millennial generation."  
--__Craig M. Gay__, Regent College, Vancouver  
  
"Grant compassionately exposes the powerful influences that orient us away from the heart of the Christian story by disordering our desires, explores the Christian reality of our shared life as sexual human beings in communion, and encourages us toward practices that embody the wholeness of cruciform life together--and he does so with candor, wisdom, and hope."  
--__Cherith Nordling__, Northern Seminary  
  
"In the intensely sexualized culture of the secularized West, Grant's thoughtful treatment is a valuable contribution to our understanding not just of our cultural conditioning but of God's design and the true sexual liberation we can experience as followers of Jesus."  
--__Sam Metcalf__, CRM-US, Fullerton, California  
  
"This is a book that needed to be written. . . . Absorbing Grant's insight, analysis, and constructive argument should not only deepen how we are talking about sex and discipleship; it should also give us new intentionality about the church as a formative community, enabling us to live into a different script that is good news--that our sexual lives are hidden with Christ in God."  
--__James K. A. Smith__ (from the foreword)

__Jonathan Grant__ (ThM, Regent College, Vancouver) is the leader of St. Paul's Symonds Street, one of the largest Anglican congregations in Australasia, located in the heart of Auckland, New Zealand. After beginning his career in law and investment banking, Grant pursued ordination training in the Church of England, serving in pastoral ministry at St. Mary's Bryanston Square, London.

__Christianity Today Book Award Winner__   
The digital revolution has ushered in a series of sexual revolutions, all contributing to a perfect storm for modern relationships. Online dating, social media, internet pornography, and the phenomenon of the smartphone generation have created an avalanche of change with far-reaching consequences for sexuality today. The church has struggled to address this new moral ecology because it has focused on clarity of belief rather than quality of formation. The real challenge for spiritual formation lies in addressing the underlying moral intuitions we carry subconsciously, which are shaped by the convictions of our age.  
  
In this book, a fresh new voice offers a persuasive Christian vision of sex and relationships, calling young adults to faithful discipleship in a hypersexualized world. Drawing from his pastoral experience with young people and from cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines, Jonathan Grant helps Christian leaders understand the cultural forces that make the church's teaching on sex and relationships ineffective in the lives of today's young adults. He also sets forth pastoral strategies for addressing the underlying fault lines in modern sexuality.

Offers a persuasive Christian vision of sex and relationships, calling readers to faithful discipleship in today's hypersexualized world.

__Contents__ Foreword by James K. A. Smith  
1. Adjusting Our Vision: Christian Formation and Relationships in a Sexualized Age __Part 1: Mapping the Modern Sexual Imaginary__ 2. Seeking the Truth Within: Love, Sex, and Relationships within the Culture of Authenticity 3. Three Paths to Freedom on the Road to Nowhere: The Dead End of Modern Liberty 4. We Are What We Acquire: Consumerism as a Corrupting Dynamic 5. The Hypersexual Self: Sex and Relationships as Happiness Technologies 6. Churches without Steeples: The Loss of Transcendence and the Atomistic Worldview __Part 2: Charting a New Course for Christian Formation__ 7. Searching for Truth That Transforms: Introducing a Christian Social Imaginary 8. Seeing the Good Life and Becoming What We See: The Role of Vision within Sexual Formation 9. Getting to the Heart of Things: Redeeming Desire and Becoming Our True Selves 10. Living the Gospel Story: Narrative Discipleship within the Narrative Community 11. Becoming What We Do: The Formative Power of Practices Epilogue: Melodies of Heaven Index

Grant, Jonathan

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. Adjusting Our Vision

Part 1: Mapping the Modern Sexual Imaginary

2. Seeking the Truth Within

3. Three Paths to Freedom on the Road to Nowhere

4. We Are What We Acquire

5. The Hypersexual Self

6. Churches without Steeples

Part 2: Charting a New Course for Christian Formation

7. Searching for Truth That Transforms

8. Seeing the Good Life and Becoming What We See

9. Getting to the Heart of Things

10. Living the Gospel Story

11. Becoming What We Do

Epilogue

Select Bibliography

Index

Back Cover

The digital revolution has ushered in a series of sexual revolutions, all contributing to a perfect storm for modern relationships. Online dating, social media, internet pornography, and the phenomenon of the smartphone generation have created an avalanche of change with far-reaching consequences for sexuality today. The church has struggled to address this new moral ecology because it has focused on clarity of belief rather than quality of formation. The real challenge for spiritual formation lies in addressing the underlying moral intuitions we carry subconsciously, which are shaped by the convictions of our age.  
  
In this book, a fresh new voice offers a persuasive Christian vision of sex and relationships, calling young adults to faithful discipleship in a hypersexualized world. Drawing from his pastoral experience with young people and from cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines, Jonathan Grant helps Christian leaders understand the cultural forces that make the church's teaching on sex and relationships ineffective in the lives of today's young adults. He also sets forth pastoral strategies for addressing the underlying fault lines in modern sexuality.

Foreword by James K. A. Smith

1\. Adjusting Our Vision: Christian Formation and Relationships in a Sexualized Age

Part 1: Mapping the Modern Sexual Imaginary

2\. Seeking the Truth Within: Love, Sex, and Relationships within the Culture of Authenticity

3\. Three Paths to Freedom on the Road to Nowhere: The Dead End of Modern Liberty

4\. We Are What We Acquire: Consumerism as a Corrupting Dynamic

5\. The Hypersexual Self: Sex and Relationships as Happiness Technologies

6\. Churches without Steeples: The Loss of Transcendence and the Atomistic Worldview

Part 2: Charting a New Course for Christian Formation

7\. Searching for Truth That Transforms: Introducing a Christian Social Imaginary

8\. Seeing the Good Life and Becoming What We See: The Role of Vision within Sexual Formation

9\. Getting to the Heart of Things: Redeeming Desire and Becoming Our True Selves

10\. Living the Gospel Story: Narrative Discipleship within the Narrative Community

11\. Becoming What We Do: The Formative Power of Practices

Epilogue: Melodies of Heaven

Index

A modern book on relationships for the modern, digital, age. Jonathan Grant's new book is perceptive and challenging.

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