Damaged Goods

Publisher Description

:Christian views on purity have changed how America sees women and sex--both for better and worse. Now, Dianna Anderson offers a fresh approach to the purity conversation, one that opens a new dialogue with the most influential Christian authors of her generation.
Anderson's new sexual ethics draw on core biblical principles and set a standard for today's Christians that may be as influential as Elisabeth Elliot's Passion and Purity.
Anderson uses her own illuminating experience with the purity movement to:

• Reach out to women and men trying to reconcile their own sexuality with their understanding of "what God wants," cultural stigma, and media pressures.

• Demonstrate how Christian ideas about purity have infiltrated American politics and culture--and why women are losing.

• Offer an affirmative, healing new path for women to understand their sexuality: one that reconciles scripture, culture, and common sense.

Provocative and engaging, she will make readers rethink their beliefs about the intersection of politics, sex, and faith.