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Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary - The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed)
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Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary - The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition (Paperback, 1st U.S. ed)
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RELIGION / CHRISTIAN STUDIES "In this remarkable book, we are
invited to encounter the real Jesus, who became incarnate in order
to embrace and consecrate flesh, offering 'life abundant' through a
spiritual path of integration. Springing from Jewish tradition,
this Jesus celebrates marriage and sexual union as a theophany
manifesting the presence of the divine." MARGARET STARBIRD, author
of The Woman with the Alabaster Jar and Mary Magdalene, Bride in
Exile "Jean-Yves Leloup's bold vision of Jesus opens entirely new
doors to the understanding of both Jesus' full humanity and our own
human possibility for conscious love." JACOB NEEDLEMAN, author of
The Wisdom of Love and Lost Christianity Of all the major
religions, Christianity is the only one that has utterly rejected
sexuality as one of the many paths that can lead to enlightenment
and salvation. But if Jesus was indeed the "Word made flesh" and we
give serious consideration to the mystery of the Incarnation, is it
reasonable that physical love would have been prohibited to him?
Drawing from the canonical and apocryphal gospels, the Hebrew
esoteric tradition, and gnosticism, Jean-Yves Leloup shows that
Jesus came not to save humanity from the life of the flesh, but to
save the life of the flesh so that it could truly transfigure all
people. Leloup explains that Saint Paul's assertion that it is good
to be without women is not based on any teachings of Jesus. In
fact, Paul's words completely contradict those of God in Genesis:
"It is not good that man should be alone." Leloup argues that the
elimination of the divine feminine and sacred sexuality from
Christian belief, set in motion by Paul's words, does not reflect
the true teachingsof Christ, and that the transformation of Jesus
into a celibate is the real heresy. Leloup restores Christ's true
human sexuality and shows it to be a vital part of humanity's
spirituality. He contends that by understanding that the sacred
nature of the embrace shared by man and woman is a true reflection
of humanity made in God's image, Christianity can again become the
powerful path of transfiguration Christ intended it to be.
JEAN-YVES LELOUP is the founder of the Institute of Other
Civilization Studies and the International College of Therapists.
His other books include the bestselling The Gospel of Mary
Magdalene, The Gospel of Thomas, and The Gospel of Philip. He lives
in France.
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