A Terrifying Grace: Sexuality, Romance and Marriage in Christian History - Exploring Love and Relationships in Religious Contexts" 使用场景：Ideal for scholars, theologians, and readers interested in Christian history, gender studies, and the intersection of faith and relationships.

I read it over a month, and then started re-reading it straight away, to refresh my memory of the fascinating stories of many well known Christian leaders. The most fascinating to me were Martin Luther, Francis Schaeffer and Derrick Prince, all people who have influenced me in the past. Really interesting to find out how human all these people were, how they made decisions, and had to overcome severe trials to continue in their ministries. Who would have thought that Francis Schaeffer was from a working class background and had a bad temper problem and a Lack of Culture, unlike his wife Edith. Or again that the Puritans had a strong working grasp of marital sexuality, thought it was a very good thing to enjoy the physical comforts of ones spouse, and that in fact it was the later Victorian era that was terribly straight laced and and was dubbed "very Puriantical". Also fascinating was how St Augustine became rather anti sex after his conversion and his influence through his writings is still felt today. Whereas Pope John-Paul II had a really good appreciation of human relations and wrote a book about it, with his much more realistic views. I hope this can become known.Other stand-outs were how bad John Wesley's married was, a real tragedy of errors, but how good were those of Jonathan and Sarah Edwards (American preacher of the Great Awakening) and Billy and Ruth Graham.Many men have had love relationships with women of similar intellect, without necessarily consummating the bond, but I wont say who-read the book. Rob Yule has obviously researched this very well- he has done the work to be an authority on this subject. Highly recommend