Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses
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The word 'chastity', at first sight, may seem intimidating, something to be dismissed out of hand. It is, however, something very different to celibacy.
At a time when religion is in decline in the Western world and when it often seems that the senses have run riot, Erik Varden shows that chastity, the single minded direction of the senses, is a loveable quality and one that affects and beautifies humankind.
The terms sexuality and wholeness indicate that to be sexual is to exist in a state of incompleteness longing to be restored. Wholeness points to a healing embrace that we desire so greatly. In Biblical language, chastity is a function of simplicity of sight. We are no longer torn apart by our passions and our desires, indeed they may reach their fulfilment. Body and spirit, male and female, order and disorder, passion and death can move from creative tension to a new kind of wholeness.
Varden's text is enriched by a wide range of references to scripture, literature, music, painting and sculpture.
At a time when religion is in decline in the Western world and when it often seems that the senses have run riot, Erik Varden shows that chastity, the single minded direction of the senses, is a loveable quality and one that affects and beautifies humankind.
Varden's first book The Shattering of Loneliness has been a critical and commercial success.
The Bishop of Trondheim spent time as Abbot of a Cistercian Monastery in Leicestershire, where he gained notoriety as a spiritual guide but also as a brewer of Trappist beer.
Good US sales.
1. List of Illustrations
2. Norma's Question
3. What a Human Being Is
Created 'in the Image'
You Are What You Wear
Life Outside Eden
4. Tensions
Body and Soul
Male and Female
Order and Disorder
Eros and Death
Marriage and Virginity
Freedom and Ascesis
5. Negotiating Passion
The Call to Perfection
Rest in Unrest
To See Clearly
6. Contemplative Life
7. Notes
- Title: Chastity: Reconciliation of the Senses
- Author: Erik Varden
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781399411400, 9781399411417, 1399411411, 1399411403
- Resource ID: LLS:9781399411400
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-12T08:54:02Z