DE019-812 - Sexuality and Identity

  • 3,288 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    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 Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, sexuality and identity, including the methods and standards of professional, safe and ethical practice. 

B. Be able to

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

2. Investigate historical and sociological influences on perceptions of sexuality and sexual conduct

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

4. Present Research-Aware evidence-based perspectives on sexuality and identity

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying perspectives and skills from ‘Sexuality and Identity’ to contemporary Christian living and ministry practice as a reflective practitioner

Content

  1. Sexuality in the Bible and Theology
  2. Physiology of sexuality; from conception to sexual maturitys, sexual orientation and sexual behaviours
  3. Gender development; and the influence of nurture
  4. Contemporary contexts for sexuality including trends in social history, 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 DM619 or DM019-812.

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.

 

General:

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

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

M. Bird and G. Preece, Sexegesis: an evangelical response to five uneasy pieces on homosexuality (APA, 2012)

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

T. Clinton and M. Laaser, Sexuality and Relationship Counseling (Baker, 2010)

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

A. H. Eagly, A. E. Beall and R. J. Sternberg, (eds.), Psychology of Gender, 2nd ed., (Guilford, 2004)

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

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

S. Golombok and R. Fivush, Gender Development (Cambridge, 1994)

S. J. Grenz, Sexual Ethics An Evangelical Perspective, (Westminster John Knox, 1997)

A. J. Köstenberger, God, Marriage, and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation (Crossway 2004)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

C. M. Shelton, Adolescent Spirituality Pastoral Ministry for High School and College Youth (Crossroad, 1995)

W. Struthers, 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:

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

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

 

Populist readings:

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

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

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

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

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

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