Sex and God and Other Essays explores the bipolar tension of base and "high" aspects of human life. The author discusses animal earthliness-Godly gravitas, lust-romance, resentment-acceptance, pain-pleasure, and a host of other bipolar tensions in twenty-six essays and four short stories. He seeks to show that a good human life embraces its wholeness, encompassing everything from the animal depths of its libido to the spiritual crest of its soul. In the process, he reaches surprising conclusions on a variety of topics-social, political, philosophical, literary, psychological, and spiritual....
Sex and God and Other Essays explores the bipolar tension of base and "high" aspects of human life. The author discusses animal earthliness-Godly grav...