Sex in Christianity and Psychoanalysis

London England: George Allen & Unwin. Hardback. First Edition. Sex in Christianity and Psychoanalysis. Ex-library with ex-library markings. Labels to inside cover. Wear and tear to D/J. Couple of small pieces of D/J. missing. This survey of the interpretations of sex by the major figures in Christian thought and in psychoanalysis makes and important contribution to the re-thinking of our sexual morality. The author refutes the common belief that the negative attitude toward sex and the body, which has been predominant in western civilization, originated with Christianity. He shows that such a viewpoint was widespread in the early Hellenism Age, nearly three centuries before Christ. He empahsizes the essentially positive view which Biblical religion demands and shows how Christianity's attitude early became corrupted by the dualism of the Orient. He points to the need for a return to essential naturalism and the Biblical interpretation of sex. This book will be important to the clergy, to psychiatrists, psychologists and sociologists, and will have a wide appeal to the general reader. 329 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1956.