Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love(Paperback)
Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love
Harper Perennial | August 4, 1999 | English | ISBN: 0060930950 | 32 MB | PDF | 336 Pgs
Harper Perennial | August 4, 1999 | English | ISBN: 0060930950 | 32 MB | PDF | 336 Pgs
As in his previous bestsellers Care of the Soul and Soul Mates, Thomas Moore wants us to think more deeply about the spiritual implications of everyday life. Which is to say that this is serious stuff–anyone looking for sexy beach reading won't find it here. What does interest the popular theologian, therapist, and former Catholic monk are the historical, philosophical, religious, and psychological aspects of sexuality that people tend not to consider. "We have a habit of talking about sex as merely physical, and yet nothing has more soul," Moore begins. If only we realized that fact, he then argues, it might relieve us of the guilt we so often feel over our own sex lives. "The problem may be that we are accustomed to imagining morality from a purely spiritual point of view as a way of limiting rather than enhancing sexuality," he continues. Yet if we paid more attention to beauty, sensuality, and pleasure, writes Moore, we might actually enhance our spirituality.