A Theology of Desire with the Revd Dr Sarah Coakley

The contemporary church seems riven with controversies, particularly about sexuality, celibacy, and the role of women. Drawing deeply on the Bible, the early Church Fathers and the writings of Freud and Jung, Sarah Coakley argues that desire can be freed from associations of promiscuity and disorder, and we can forge a new positive, ascetical vision, founded in the disciplines of prayer and attention.
Chaired by the Revd Canon Mark Oakley, Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral.

[@JonTrott]

In a post-Trump but very currently Trumpagelical America, Sarah Coakley's vision of God, desire, and personhood is a drink of water in desert wastelands. Thank you.

[@chrisbourland6613]

it's been almost a year and your comment is just as true as it was when written!

[@skwbtm1]

You forgot Kierkegaard.

[@TioPaul1958]

Whatever happened to impassibility?

[@alfalfafalafelmafia]

Relgion cannot go against the human basic insticts. Celibacy should not be institutionalized. This would be fundamentalky wrong.

[@JesusForKing2030]

Unlike the other commenter, I wouldnt say charlatan, but there wasnt much that was helpful in this, from my perspective

[@no42arak-st-floor44]

agape...philia....eros....have nothing in common...sorry🤔😌

[@piushalg8175]

I think that the problem of the catholic church with sexual abuse is not so much the problem or the difficulties involved with celibacy but the problem of homosexuality itself and the fact that the celibate priesthood has been an attractive way of life for many homosexuals. Of course I do not deny that there are also cases of heterosexual abuses. But they seem to be far less numerous.

[@zeroone6461]

Sex and serving God can't go together.

[@vance39]

You're wrong.

[@zeroone6461]

@@vance39 tell me how.

[@vance39]

@@zeroone6461 "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it." (Genesis 1:28)
"As for you, be fruitful and multiply. Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it." (Genesis 9:7)

[@zeroone6461]

@@vance39 that's for everybody but not to those who serve him in his house under his eyes.

[@vance39]

@@zeroone6461 Are you saying that priests should not get married and have wives? Is that what you're saying? Who are you to make that determination? You don't decide whether priests should get married or not. Do you not understand that priests are human beings too and that like all other human beings they have the same God-given right just like everybody else to be married if they so choose?

[@Novapsihoanaliza]

Just another charlatan

[@ericbenjamin2908]

And you base this opinion on what, exactly?