Following on from the session Subversive Sex (THEOS 9th June), here are some of the questions we discussed in the forum. Many of these questions build from discussion in Walsh and Keesmaat's Colossians Remixed.
Discuss
1 – What is the difference between betrothed commitment and animal instinct?
2 - Has sex become a commodity like everything else in the Empire? What effect does this have?
3a - Both marriage and community require trust, patience, respect, mutual help, forgiveness - in other words the practice of love, as opposed to the feeling of love. This practice is rooted in the respect of the other, mutuality, self-sacrifice and responsibility for the consequences of sexual love.
3b - Like any industrial or commercial enterprise, industrialised and commercialised sexuality seeks to conquer nature by exploiting it and ignoring the consequences.
4 - An ethic of sexuality rooted in community and fidelity subverts the fragmented world of cold economic efficiency by embracing the ridiculously inefficient life of committed love.
5 - Is there anything more offensive to consumer society than the word ‘enough’?
6 - If we live in a disposable, instant culture, what happens to our sex lives?
7 – Is it just sexual idolatry that we face today?
8 - Can the church proclaim a counter-cultural message of sexuality when it embraces culture in most other areas? (ie. wealth - ownership - equality - prosperity - war and violence - globalism - commercialism - celebrity - politics)
Post your thoughts and comments...
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
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