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Openness Unhindered: Further Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert on Sexual Identity and Union with Christ (Butterfield)

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9781884527999
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Crown & Covenant Publications
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205
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Paperback
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Terms like same-sex marriage, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gay Christian are part of daily discourse; yet enormous controversy surrounds them. They are the stuff of news headlines and vitriolic social media posts. But they also reflect stirrings of the heart in real people with real questions and concerns. 

Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, once a leftist professor in a committed lesbian relationship and now a confessional Christian, but always the thoughtful and compassionate professor, has written a followup to The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert. This book answers many of the questions people pose when she speaks at universities and churches, questions not only about her unlikely conversion to Christ but about personal struggles that the ques­tioners only dare to ask someone else who has traveled a long and painful journey.

Dr. Butterfield not only goes to great lengths to clarify some of today's key controversies, she also traces their history and defines the terms that have become second nature today-even going back to God's original design for marriage and sexuality as found in the Bible. She cuts to the heart of the problems and points the way to the solution, which includes a challenge to the church to be all that God intended it to be, and for each person to find the true freedom that is found in Christ. 

Contents:

Preface: Conversion, Identity, Community

1. Conversion: The Spark of a New Identity

2. Identity: The Flame of Our Union in Christ

3. Repentance: The Threshold to God and the Answer to Shame, Temptation, and Sin

4. Sexual Orientation: Freud’s Nineteenth-Century Mistake

5. Self-Representation: What Does It Mean to be gay?

6. Conflict: When Sisters Disagree

7. Community: Representing Christ to the World

Epilogue: Marriage, Ministry, Children  

Endorsements 

“King Jesus knows just what the church and the world need, and just when we need it. When we needed a Pascal; behold, there was Pascal. When we needed Spurgeon, there he was. In his wisdom, Jesus knew that we would need the gift, right now, of Rosaria Butterfield. This book deals with some of the most difficult and incendiary questions with wit, joy, maturity, and, above all, radiating love. 

If you are struggling with sexual sin, this book will help you. If you are gripped with guilt from your past, this book will strengthen you. If you don’t know how to love or bear witness to your neighbors, this book will equip you. Like Jael of old, Rosaria Butterfield wields the tent peg of the gospel against deception and accusation. And, with this book, she nails it.” – Russell Moore, president of The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission 

“Rosaria Butterfield is a gift from God to the church. She brings together so many rare combinations: courage and compassion, provocation and wisdom, profundity and accessibility. Virtually every page of this new book overflows with insights on sexual identity, our disordered rebellion, and what it means to commune with the Triune God to whom we are united. Taken to heart, this book will change not only conversations but the very way we live before God.” – Justin Taylor, co-editor for John Owen’s Overcoming Sin and Temptation