Two religious professors, Linda S.
Shilin and Valery H.
Ziegler works together for a pleasant new book.
The temptation of Eden: How Western culture is used, confused ,(
Abuse sometimes)
Adam and Eve" (
Baylor University Press
Analyze the continued impact of the first couple on our culture, which is usually funny and occasionally touching.
Through our appeal to Adam and Eve, what do we know about ourselves?
With Kristen E.
Kvam, Schearing and Ziegler have studied how Jews, Christians and Muslims understand Genesis 23.
For full disclosure, I should admit that Ziegler is one of my university professors, a true mentor I like and admire, and the most interesting classroom teacher I have ever seen.
That is to say, let's talk about fundamentalists and sexuality.
When Schearing and Ziegler studied the jokes of Adam and Eve, the advertisements of Adam and Eve, and the sexual industries of Adam and Eve, the results were interesting, but perhaps predictable. Low-
Hang fruit, a possibility (shamelessly)say.
But when these two scholars
Theologists reflect on what Christians have done to our own sex life, their insights become more acute, their humor sparkles, and their compassion for the real human being forces them to do so. As my all-
TIME's favorite rock band, live color, once said, "everyone is messed up by their sexuality. " Indeed.
As a pre-fundamentalist clinging to the fragments of evangelical identity, when Schearing and Ziegler use "evangelism" to describe everything from the parent-teacher aversion to women to online Christian dating-
I'm not ready yet. -
Disciples of the Christian family.
The author does acknowledge the debate between evangelists on issues such as the obligation of a woman to obey her husband and the merits or disadvantages of anal intercourse, but this generalization may be purposeful.
It reveals how the focus of evangelists on sexual purity leads to various unexpected side effects.
This book begins with countless ways for some evangelists to build gender ranks between boys and girls, men and women.
Naturally, they get attention to strange moments like Super Pastor T. D.
Jacob's book on Christian femininity compares men and women to electric plugs and sockets: It's just biology, right?
When we met the Bible princess for the special little girl, we began to laugh.
It's funny to think the so-called Bible-
Christian-based people turn to Victorian stereotypes and look for cultural clues and images that are not relevant to biblical values.
But then we realized that the real girl, like our daughter, was told to drink tea, make up every day and wait for a prince to redeem their originally empty life.
When some authors tell young women to let their father play the role until their Prince Charming really arrives, others describe "a close relationship with my Prince [s"Jesus]
In the sanctuary of My Heart "(quoted on p. 35)?
How did we change from Adam and Eve to "Little Mermaid" and mental porn?
What about Christian dating if it looks hard?
Similarly, it is reasonable for Adam and Eve to give up dating for love ---
It's like this is the Bible practice. -
Competitive vision for online dating.
When a Christian dating expert imagines the chemistry between Adam and Eve as "like you 've never seen before", he doesn't laugh (40)?
Schearing and Ziegler surveyed the world of Christian online dating, including consulting columns, different business models and different ethical approaches to dating.
Evangelists encourage people to be invaders in relationships.
Some condemned the failure of unmarried youth to assume the responsibility of adults.
At the same time, Christian women find themselves trapped by this system: preachers insist that women who are obedient should not take the initiative to date, but men will not summon up courage or will to make an appointment with them
What should a good Christian girl do?
Schearing and Ziegler really shine in their discussion about Christian family discipline (CDD).
Here I keep the details: the book needs to speak for itself.
The CDD campaign tells us that men need to be responsible at home, which includes penalizing wives who rebel to a moderate or significant extent.
Guys, we're here to discuss spanking, including forums, porn novels, and special underwear.
This chapter is funny. -
But Schearing and Ziegler attended the forum, heard the anxiety of the real crowd, and identified the source of pain and redemption in these stories.
Just buy a book.
There is a lot to be said about the sexual behavior of fundamentalists and their contradictions ---
We will go.
But the fundamentalist did not hold a patent for sexual disorder.
This dysfunction is spreading in our culture.
Schearing and Ziegler look at the adult entertainment industry, especially the Empire of Philip D Adam and Eve
Harvey, who advocates "sex"
Positive.
For centuries, many Christian readers have interpreted Adam and Eve as sex --
But a lot of people think sex is guilty in itself.
Harvey himself condemned the negative attitude of Christianity towards sex.
His network of Adam and Eve includes online distribution of adult films, sex toys and other products, as well as physical stores, and Harvey is very committed to charity work.
Similarly, Schearing and Ziegler have raised some tricky questions about Harvey and the adult entertainment industry as a whole.
Many studies have shown victims of pornography.
Despite Harvey's label of Adam and Eve, his business reduced the story of Genesis to sex as if the story had nothing to do with other topics.
Christians should pursue a unique and faithful sex life.
When we read a magazine, we will find that we live in a culture of non-humanity and exploitation. The Gospel has a lot to say about it.
Unfortunately, the sexual teaching of fundamentalism bears a huge burden of trying to prove its own advantages.
So we got all sorts of weird sexual acts recorded by Schearing and Ziegler, including those publicly boasted by married priests ---
And sometimes marketing. -
Their sex life
"Save it to marriage, but when you finally get it, you should be a better lover," they told the children . ".
"I suspect we are asking too much for Adam and Eve ---
There are too many Bibles.
If we have a time machine, I can assure you a result: modern visitors who come to the cultural world of the Bible will come back soon to express shock and frustration.
People in the Bible world do not "fall in love" and then get married.
They bargain for their wives, conceive slaves, and abuse prisoners.
Women's bodies are included in the calculation of inheritance and male honor, so their sexual behavior is controlled.
This is why the Bible defines adultery from the sexual status of women rather than the sexual status of men.
We do not ask the Bible to establish our financial or government system.
We are right to make fun of charlatans who promote the Bible diet ---
Archaeological evidence reveals how people were malnourished in ancient times.
Why are we asking Adam and Eve for sexual counseling?
Instead, the Bible has a lot to say about maintaining loyalty in all areas of life, about protecting each other, about mutual, integrity, service and honesty.
These values persist.
We don't need to turn Genesis into one. to manual.