DE019-512 - Sexuality and Identity

  • 2,853 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 5
    AQF level
  • Category developing unit
    B
  • Developmental and Educational Ministry Unit Discipline

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

Demonstrate Foundational knowledge and understanding of sexuality and identity, including the methods and standards of professional, safe and ethical practice. 

B. Be able to

1. Outline the biblical paradigm for human sexuality and sexual behaviour

2. Relate an understanding of sexual biology and neurology to the biblical paradigm for sexuality

3. Describe current secular trends in adolescent sexuality and sexual behaviour and their implications for personal values and beliefs

4. Present Organised evidence-based perspectives on sexuality and identity

C. Be in a position to

1. Relating perspectives and skills from ‘Sexuality and Identity: An Introduction’ to contemporary Christian living and ministry contexts

Content

  1. Sexuality in the Bible
  2. Physiology of sexuality; with a focus on puberty, sexual orientation and sexual behaviours
  3. Gender development; and the influence of nurture
  4. Contemporary contexts for sexuality including trends in music, media and popular culture
  5. Aberrant influences; understanding the impact of inappropriate exposure to sexually explicit materials
  6. Personal ethics; developing individual and community responses to the Biblical picture in the light of contemporary influences
  7. Practical help; developing empathy and providing help to others

Further Information

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code DM219 or DM019-512.

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.

 

 Ash, C., Marriage: Sex in the Service of God, (IVP, 2003) 

Balswick, J. K., and J. O. Balswick, Authentic Human Sexuality, 2nd ed., (IVP, 2008)

Brandon, G., Just Sex: Is It Ever Just Sex? (IVP, 2009)

Davidson, R. M., Flame of Yahweh: Sexuality in the Old Testament (Hendrickson 2007)

Freitas, D., Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses, (Oxford University Press, 2008)

Gagnon, R. A. J., The Bible and Homosexual Practice (Abingdon, 2001)

Grenz, St. J., Sexual Ethics An Evangelical Perspective, (Westminster John Knox, 1997) A. J. Köstenberger, God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation (Crossway 2004)

Kuehne, D., Sex and the iWorld  (Baker, 2009)

Lehr (ed.), S., Beauty Brains and Brawn: construction of gender in children’s literature (Heinemann, 2001)

Loader, W., New Testament on Sexuality (Eerdmans, 2012)

Lyon Clark, B., and M. R. Higgonet, Girls Boys Books Toys: gender in children’s literature and culture (John Hopkins, 1999)

Regnerus, M., and J. Uecker  Premarital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying (Oxford University Press, 2011)

Peterson, D. (ed), Holiness & Sexuality: Homosexuality in a Biblical Context (Paternoster, 2004)

Pierce, R. W., R. M. Groothuis and G. D. Fee Discovering Biblical Equality, 2nd ed.,  (IVP, 2005)

Piper, J., & W. Grudem (eds.), Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism (Crossway, 2006)

Piper, J., and J. Taylor (eds), Sex and the Supremacy of Christ (Good News / Crossway, 2005)

Winner, L. F., Real Sex: The Naked Truth about Chastity (Think Books, 2005)

Robertson, O. P., The Genesis of Sex: Sexual Relationships in the First Book of the Bible (Presbyterian &     Reformed, 2002)

Schmidt, T. E., Straight & Narrow: Compassion & Clarity in the Homosexuality Debate, (IVP, 1995)

Struthers, W., Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain, (IVP, 2009)

American Psychological Association, Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. Report of the APA Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls. retrieved from http://www.apa.org/pi/women/programs/girls/report-full.pdf (2010).

Department of Education, Letting Children be Children retrieved from https://www.education.gov.uk/publications/standard/publicationDetail/Page1/CM%208078

 

Recommended:

Weerakoon, P., Teen Sex by the Book, (CEP, 2012)

Hollinger, D. P., The Meaning Of Sex: Christian Ethics and the Moral Life, (Baker, 2009)

 

Populist readings:

Ferguson, O. (ed.), Teen Sex (At Issue) (Greenhaven, 2011)

Hamilton, M., What's Happening to Our Girls? Too much, Too soon, How our kids are overstimulated, oversold and oversexed (Penguin Group Australia 2008)

Hamilton, M., What's Happening to Our Boys? How the new technologies, drugs and alcohol, peer pressure and porn affect our boys (Penguin Group Australia, 2010)

Tankard Reist, M., and A. Bray (Eds) Big Porn Inc: Exposing the harms of the global pornography industry (Spinifex, 2011)

Tankard Reist, M. (ed.) Getting Real: Challenging the Sexualisation of Girls (Spinifex Press, 2009)