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Eros and Agape, divorce and remarriage, birth control and abortion, homosexuality, artificial insemination. These are some of the issues that Thielicke confronts in this wide-ranging study of human sexuality. His approach is scholarly and thorough, and the questions are considered within the broad context of Christian anthropology. His combination of scientific knowledge and Christian insight makes this an important contribution to some of the most hotly debated issues of today. All those who are honestly searching for new insights that are consistent with modern knowledge as well as with Biblical values will welcome it as a beacon of light on the subject.

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The author deals here with the sexuality of man in the context of Christian anthropology , the doctrine of creation and redemption, and of responsible fellow humanity. While basing this anthropology upon the Biblical - particularly Jesus's - view of man's bi-sexuality, he recognizes that modern man is structurally, psychologically, sociologically, different from Biblical man, especially in the liberation of his individuality, and he insists that theological and Biblical teachings about sex should take seriously the nature of the modern person as well as the concrete ways in which the problems of sex arise for men and women today. After an Introduction, which develops a Biblical Anthropology of the sexes, the book discusses the problem of the relation of Eros and Agape with reference to human integration; the Order of Marriage including the question of divorce, and the Borderline Situations - birth control, abortion, artificial insemination, and homosexuality. While thoroughly grounded in both theological and Biblical teaching, the author is also conversant with the psychological and scientific literature of this field. At the same time he writes with penetrating awareness of the problems of pastoral care arising with respect to sex. This should be an outstanding contribution to the subject, useful to serious students, pastors, counsellors, and lay people seeking to find a ground for ordering their own personal life. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Helmut Thielicke is one of the most outstanding preachers and theologians of the German Lutheran Church. Dismissed by the Nazi regime from his post of Professor of Theology at Heidelberg in 1940, he came to prominence in Stuttgart where, during the worst of the bombing raids and in spite of continuing Nazi opposition, he continued to preach to a congregation of several thousand each week. After the war he served as professor and Rector at the University of Tubingen until 1954, when he accepted the post of Rector at the University of Hamburg, the first Protestant theologian to hold this position. He died in 1986.

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