INDEX

Agape, 107

Allison, Dale C., 57–58, 66

Alison, James, xiii, 187n3

Anderson, Raymond Kemp, xvii, 189n17

Aquinas, Thomas, 149, 160, 164–65, 222n87, 228n10

Aristotle, 183

Ascension, doctrine of, 22, 202n20, 207n8

Athenagoras, 72

Augustine of Hippo, xxiv, 81–96, 105, 110, 112, 123, 133, 149, 220n53, 220n64, 231n31

Baldwin, James A., 170

Bancroft, John, 158

Barclay, William, 45

Béguines, 224n16

Bergner, Daniel, 154

biblical references

Acts 3:4–7, 196n20

Acts 7:59, 192n5

Acts 8:4–8, 196n20

Acts 17:32, 35

Acts 23:11, 205n34

I Corinthians 6, 15, 47–48

1 Corinthians 7, 49, 58–59, 148, 210n24, 211n32, 213n43, 227n35

1 Corinthians 9:27, 16

1 Corinthians 15, 36, 38–45, 51, 64, 192n5, 199n35, 204n29, 205n33, 205n38

2 Corinthians 4:14, 202n19

2 Corinthians 11:2, 212n40

2 Corinthians 12:1–10, 205n34

Daniel 12:2–3, 32

Daniel 13, 228n2

Deuteronomy 6:5, 225n19

Deuteronomy 24:5, 232n6

Deuteronomy 25:5–6, 54

Ecclesiastes 3:12–13, 108

Ephesians 5, 212n40, 225n20

Exodus 3:6, 15–16, 54

Exodus 20:17, 136

Ezekiel 37, 201n8

Galatians 3:28, 66, 114

Galatians 5:22–23, 48

Genesis 2:7, 60

Genesis 2:18–25, 67, 148

Genesis 3:6–16, 122

Genesis 3, 56, 77, 122

Genesis 5:24, 200n3

Genesis 6:1–8, 209n18

Hebrews 2:14–18, 21, 59–60

Hebrews, 60, 192n5, 202n19, 218n37

Hosea 6:2, 201n8

Isaiah 26:19, 201n8

Isaiah 38:18, 201n5

Isaiah 53:9–12, 30–31

Isaiah 65:17–25, 28–29

James 5:5, 225n20

Job 34:14–15, 200n2

John 1:14, 20

John 2:1–11, 21, 15, 63

John 3:16, 103

John 3:29–30, 212n40

John 4:14–15, 105–6

John 5, 192n5, 202n21

John 10:10b, 11

John 11:1–45, 4

John 15:15–17, 108

John 17:20–23, 103

John 20, 52, 190n23, 203n23, 203n24, 207n9

1 John 4:1–8, 98, 102

1 Kings 17–21, 200n3

2 Kings 2:11, 200n3

Leviticus 15:18, 206n4

Leviticus 19:18, 225n19

Luke 2:21, 210n25

Luke 12:36, 207n6

Luke 14:14, 202n21

Luke 16:19, 192n5

Luke 20:27–38, 56–57

Luke 23:43, 8

Luke 24, 52, 203n23, 203n24, 207n9

2 Maccabees 7, 32–33

Mark 2:19, 207n6

Mark 5:39, 192n5

Mark 10:6–8, 67

Mark 12:18–27, 53–55, 63–64, 202n21

Mark 16:6b–20, 52, 207n8

Matthew 5:27–28, 135

Matthew 6:10, xi

Matthew 19:1–6, 10–12, 61, 63

Matthew 21:33–46, 212n40

Matthew 22, 202n21, 207n6, 212n39, 212n40, 212n43, 225n19

Matthew 23:9, xiii

Matthew 25, 196n20, 212n40

Matthew 26:41, 18

Matthew 28, 203n23, 207n9

Numbers 16:33, 201n5

1 Peter 3:19, 192n5

1 Peter 4, 192n5

Philippians 1:23, 192n5

Philippians 3:21, 68, 72

Psalm 6:6, 201n5

Psalm 16:9–11, 31

Psalm 104:29, 200n2

Proverbs 6:23–26, 122

Revelation 19:6–9, 212n40

Revelation 21:1–4, 64–65, 146

Romans 6:4–5, 205n32

Romans 7:7, 136

Romans 7:18, 123

Romans 7:23–24, 18

Romans 8:22–23, 123

Romans 12:1, 15

2 Samuel 11, 228n2

Song of Songs 7:11–13, 148

1 Thessalonians 2:12, xviii

1 Thessalonians 4:12–16, 6, 192n5, 202n19

2 Thessalonians 2:15, 222n1

1 Timothy 2:15, 63

1 Timothy 4:4, 148–49

1 Timothy 6:13–16, 11, 42

2 Timothy 2:11, 202n19

2 Timothy 2:16–18, 9

2 Timothy 3:2–5, 225n20

Bieler, Andrea and Luise Schottroff, xix

Blake, William, 225n29

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, xviii

Boring, M. Eugene, 55

Brock, Rita Nakashima, xx

Brown, Peter, 83, 90

Brueggemann, Walter, 232n4

Burrus, Virginia, 77

Butler, Judith, 233n16

Bynum, Carolyn Walker, 8, 72, 80–81

Calvin, John, xvii

Caputi, Jane, 175

Cates, Diana Fritz, 135–37

Cavadini, John C., 88

Celibacy (idealization of), 23, 49, 57–59, 61–62, 74, 78, 80, 85, 141

and eunuchism, 61–63

and cult of virginity, 62, 78–79, 82–83

Chivers, Meredith L., 188n10

Chrysostom, John, 78–79, 218n46

Clark, Elizabeth A., 78–79, 91–92, 218n46,

Clement of Alexandria, 76, 198n33, 216n23, 216n25

Cloutier, David, xix

Collins, John J., 32

Collins, Raymond F., 39

contraception, 128, 165, 236

Cooper, Kate and Conrad Leyser, 87

creation, doctrine of, xx, 20

cremation, 12, 194n13

Daley, Brian E., 77, 214n4

Dante, 106–7

Day, Dorothy, 112

Dead Sea Scrolls, 33, 201n10

Delattre, Roland A., 109

deposit of faith, 101

DeRogatis, Amy, 238n13

Dewart, Joanne E. McWilliam, 76

Dioscorus, 217–18n37

Dionysius the Areopagite (AKA the Presbyter), 104

Donahue, John R. and Daniel J. Harrington, 53–55

Driver, Thomas Faw, 154, 210n23

Dunning, Benjamin H., 214n3

Einsiedel, Edna F., 176

Elijah (and Enoch), 29–30, 200n3, 202n17, 209n18

Ellens, J. Harold, 68

Ellison, Marvin M., 156, 174–76

embodiment

ambivalence about, 13–17

ambiguity of, 17–19

Docetism, 60, 72

dualism, 8–9, 74–75

Gnosticism, 75

Neo-Platonism, 75

Enoch (See Elijah)

Erotophobia, 125

eschatology

definition, xvi

and ethics in general, xi, xvii–xviii, 8

over realized, 41–42, 204n29

and sexual ethics, xix–xxiii, 161

eunuchs, 59, 61ff

excarnation, 182

faithfulness to the living Tradition, 98–100

Fahs, Breanne, 153–54

Farley, Margaret A., 139, 165–66, 171, 185, 227n1

Farley, Wendy, xx, 104, 162–63

Fisher, Helen E., 129, 228n8

Fitzmeyer, Joseph A., 203n28, 204n31

Fortune, Marie M., 138, 156, 240–41n33

Frykholm, Amy, 172

Gavey, Nicola, 238n15

Green, Joel B., 63

Gregory of Nazianzus, 21, 199n34

Gregory of Nyssa, 77, 217n35

Grenz, Stanley J., xxii, 23, 199n38

Gudorf, Christine E., 143–44, 149–50, 160

Gundry-Volf, Judith M., 227n35

Harrington, Daniel J., 54

Harrison, Verna E. F., 77, 217n35, 218n37

Harrod, Howard L., 152

Hays. Richard B., 45, 51, 68–69, 213n47

Henrikson, Jan-Olav, 104, 110–11, 163

heterosexism, 66, 165

Heyward, Carter, xx

Hilkert, Mary Catherine, 16

Hogue, David A., 129, 179

Hunter, David G., 219n48

Hollinger, Dennis P., 67

Howitt, Denis and Guy Cumberbatch, 177

Ignatius of Antioch, 214n4

Incarnation, doctrine of, 16, 20, 21, 98, 103, 170, 182, 195n16, 197–98n33

Ind, Jo, 124, 130–31

Irenaeus of Lyons, 73, 198

Jacobson, Arland, xiii

Jantzen, Grace, 75, 80

Jensen, David H., xiii, xxii, 104–5

Jensen, Robert, 162, 164, 174, 178

Jerome, 78, 83

John Paul II, xix, 23

Johnson, Luke Timothy, 212n36

Johnson, William Stacey, xxi–xxii

Jordan, Mark D., 220n53

Jovinian, 79–80, 83, 219n48

Julian of Eclanum, 91–92

Jung, L. Shannon, 196n23, 197n29

Kamitsuka, Margaret D., xxii

Kant, Immanuel, 110, 117, 123, 230n21

Kearney, Richard, 182–83

Keck, Leander E., 207n12

Kin-dom of God, 188n7

Knight III, Henry H. (Hal), xvii

LaHaye, Timothy and Beverly, 167

Lajeunesse, Simon Louis, 172

Levine, Amy Jill, 211–12n33

Levinson, Jon D., 31

Lewis, C. S., 112, 225n29

Leyser, Conrad, 87

Loader, William, 57, 60–61, 63

Lorde, Audre, xx

Louw, Daniel J., 47–8, 50, 206n5

Luther, Martin, 141, 191–2n2

Luz, Ulrich, 211n30

MacDannell, Colleen and Bernhard Long, 55–56

Mackin, Theodore, 206n4

Marcus, Joel, 55–56, 65, 209n19

marriage, xii–xiv, xix, xxi, 14, 23–24, 48–50, 53–66, 76, 78–79, 82–83, 90–91, 93, 113–16, 126, 141, 144, 148–49, 164, 195n19, 207n12, 209n21, 211n32, 211–12n33, 212n36, 212–13n43, 215n16, 216n23, 232n7, 237n11, 238n15, 243n57

McCormick, Patrick A., 195n18

McGinn, Bernard, 77

McGuckin, John Anthony, xxi

Mechthild of Magdeburg, 105–6

Medina, John J., 130

Mercer, Joyce Ann, 178

Miguez, Nester O., xviii

Miles, Margaret R., 96

Miller, Keith Graber, 160

Miller, Lisa, 11, 20, 194n12, 199n36, 214n2

Milton, John, 212n41

Moore, Sebastian, 110

Morse, Christopher, xviii, 20

Nicolosi, A., E.O. Laumann, and D.B. Glasser, 234n21

Nelson, James B., xvii

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 224n13

Northrup, Christiane, 167–68

Nussbaum, Martha C., 125, 131–33, 138, 230n20, 230n24

O’Murchu, Diarmuid, 126

Origen, 77, 198n33

Orr, William W., xix

philia, 107–8

Pius XI, 237n11

Pius XII, 237n11

Plato, 34, 183

Pornography, 135, 139, 142, 144, 161–82

and anxious masculinity, 180

definition of, 173–74

and dominance/submission/violence, 124, 175–77

and excarnation, 185

and the internet, 171–82

and the stimulation/loss of desire, 162, 178–79

and masturbation, 169, 173

and risky sexual behavior, 178, 181

and unilateral pleasure, 180–81, 184

Ratzinger, Joseph (later Benedict XVI), 9, 30–31, 219n49

resurrection of the body

already but not yet, xvi, xviii, xxi, 20, 48, 55, 72, 109, 125, 162, 204n29

Apostles’ Creed, xvi, 215n5

contemporary views of afterlife in the U.S., 6–10

Nicene Creed, 213–14n1

empty tomb and appearance stories, 51–53

general resurrection, 22, 33, 36, 40–41, 72–73, 81, 85

in Hellenism, 33–35

in Judaism, 28–33

purely spiritual, 10–13

Risen Christ, 4, 21, 36–37, 40, 51–53, 78–80, 93

seed metaphor, 36, 45

spiritual body, 43–45

theological support for, 5, 19–22, 90

transformation, transfiguration, glorification, 86–87

Rees, Geoffrey, xxi

Ross, Susan A., 17, 102, 197n27

Salinger, J. D., 20

Salzman, Todd A. and Michael G. Lawler, 114

Schwartz, Pepper, 156

Schillebeeckx, Edward, 16

Scroggs, Robin, xvii

Segal, Alan F., 37–38, 43–44, 76

sensus fidei, 99

sex in heaven

like angels, 53, 55, 63–66, 73–74

arguments against, 23–26, 48–50, 55–56, 67

arguments for, 47–48, 50, 58–69, 92–93, 97–98, 121, 146–47, 150–51

and feasting in heaven, 85, 89, 93–94, 147

and righteous anger in heaven, 77

gender in heaven, 72, 76–81, 88, 114–15

celibacy in heaven, 56, 115

and levirate marriage, 53–55, 63

marriage in heaven, 60–61, 66, 77, 115–16

polyamory in heaven, 68, 116–17

and its transformation, 67, 88–89

and reproduction in heaven, 78, 85, 88

sexual desire/delight

arguments against its cultivation, 143–45

arguments in favor of its cultivation, 141–42, 144–60

biological foundations, 127–30

body’s grace, 125, 169

bonding, 169

casual relationships, 170, 184

cultural foundations for, 125

curtailment of, 82, 123

definition of, xiv–xv

and erotic desire/eros, xv, 77, 104, 108–10

as an emotion or feeling, 132–37

faking desire & delight, 152–53

fallen angels, 56

and Jesus of Nazareth, 59–60, 72, 91

laws of onah, 148

love, 112–13, 165–68, 170

lust, 82, 84, 88, 90–91, 95–96, 109, 123, 133

malleability of, 133–38

no/low desire, HSDD, asexuality, 130, 141, 149–52, 154–59

in Paradise, 78, 83–84, 87–88

(sharing) pleasure, 167–68

psycho-social foundation for, 123–26, 130–39

reproduction, 83–84, 88, 127–28, 164–65

and sin, 122–24, 133

theology of desire, 101–11, 169–70

transformation and education of, 123–39, 156, 162–70

Sheldrake, Philip, 108

Shults, LeRon and Jan-Olav Henriksen, 163

Sigurdson, Ola, 171, 182

Smedes, Lewis B., 60, 67–68

Smit, Laura A., 48–50, 60

Smith, Daniel A., 52

Stuart, Elizabeth, xix

Taylor, Barbara Brown, 195n16

Tertullian of Carthage, 73–74

Theotokos, 188n8

Thiel, John E., 92, 117

Thompson, Deanna A., 122

Tiefer, Leonore, 158

tradition, authentic faithfulness to, 98–101

Traina, Cristina H. L., xv, 138, 188n10, 189n14, 228n10

Twain, Mark, 187–88n5

Ussher, Jane M., 173, 175–77, 180, 240n31

Vacek, Edward Collins, 102, 104, 107–9, 150

Volf, Miroslav, 114

Ward, Graham, 211n27

Wesley, John and Charles, xvii–xviii

Whitehead, James D. and Evelyn Eaton, 102–4

Wiesner-Hanks, Merry E., 209–10n21

Williams, Rowan, 169

Williamson, Jr., Lamar, 208n12

Wilson, Gary, 172

Witherington III, Ben, 24–25

Wright, N.T., xi, 8, 36–38, 44, 65, 203n25

Yoder, Christine Roy, 163–64