Sanctified Sexuality: Valuing Sex in an Oversexed World
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Expert biblical and practical advice for handling today’s most challenging sexual issues
Although modern culture constantly changes its views on sexuality, God’s design for sexuality remains the same.
Bringing together twenty-five expert contributors in relevant fields of study, Gary Barnes and Sandra Glahn address the most important and controversial areas of sexuality that Christians face today. From a scriptural perspective and with an irenic tone, the contributors address issues such as:
- The theology of the human body
- Male and female in the Genesis creation accounts
- Abortion
- Celibacy
- Sexuality in marriage
- Contraception
- Infertility
- Cohabitation
- Divorce and remarriage
- Same-sex attraction
- Gender dysphoria
An ideal handbook for pastors, counselors, instructors, and students, Sanctified Sexuality provides solid answers and prudent advice for the many questions Christians encounter on a daily basis.
- Brings together twenty-five expert contributors in relevant fields of study
- Addresses the most important and controversial areas
- Provides answers and advice for the many questions Christians encounter on a daily basis
Top Highlights
“In the early 1900s, a ‘respectable’ woman wore an average of twenty-five pounds of clothing when she appeared in public” (Page 15)
“Our bodies tell the story that God loves us, wants to marry us, and wants us (the bride) to ‘conceive’ his eternal life within us.” (Page 23)
“the family is the fundamental cell of society, as the family goes, so goes the culture.” (Page 24)
“he designed physical realities to convey spiritual mysteries.” (Page 18)
- Title: Sanctified Sexuality: Valuing Sex in an Oversexed World
- Authors: Sandra Glahn, C. Gary Barnes
- Publisher: Kregel
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 461
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Sex › Christianity
- ISBNs: 9780825446245, 0825446244
- Resource ID: LLS:SNCTFDSXLTYWRLD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-17T18:57:51Z
Sandra Glahn (PhD, UTD) is Professor of Media Arts and Worship at Dallas Theological Seminary (DTS), where she has taught for 24 years. She holds a Master of Theology (ThM) degree from DTS and a PhD in The Humanities–Aesthetic Studies from the University of Texas at Dallas. Glahn is a journalist and the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, including the Coffee Cup Bible Study series (AMG). Her most recent work is Nobody’s Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament (IVP Academic). A frequent podcast guest and retreat speaker, Glahn’s areas of expertise include Artemis at the time of the earliest Christians, Ephesus, select Bible books and backgrounds, women’s history and issues, the history of ideas about gender, and writing for publication. You can find her website and blog at sandraglahn.com. and follow her on X/Twittter @Sandraglahn.
C. Gary Barnes is professor of biblical counseling at Dallas Theological Seminary. He is a licensed clinical psychologist, board certified by the American Board of Christian Sex Therapists, a clinical member of Sexual Wholeness, and an ordained Anglican priest.
Reviews
1 rating
Kelsey Hency
10/22/2020
When the topic of sexuality comes up among Christians, those who engage are often throwing Bible verses like knives at a circus show, hoping to pin anyone who disagrees with them to a wall. Instead of arming their audience with more weapons, Dr. Glahn and Dr. Barnes have curated a book that turns the words of the Bible from weapons into tools that guide thoughtful readers into a life of wisdom. Beginning with creation and a theology of the body, and working through more specific issues of sexuality, each contributor adds to a framework of sexual ethics that helps readers make order out of the chaos surrounding the topic of sexuality. If you are looking for rigorous academics and humble, gracious engagement on a seminal topic of our day, you’ll find it in these pages.