Body and Soul: Rethinking Sexuality as Justice Love

Ellison and Thorson-Smith have coedited a collection of essays--in collaboration with two dozen prominent theologicans--that plays off the controversial 1991 Presbyterian study they coauthored entitled Keeping Body and Soul Together: Sexuality, Spirituality, and Social Justice; and takes stock of sexuality, religion, and ethics at the beginning of the new millennium. The cutting-edge analyses address the possibilities--and demands--of a justice-love ethic for individuals, church, and society.

Marvin M. Ellison is Professor of Christian Ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary in Portland, Maine and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). He received his PhD from Union Theological Seminary in New York City and is the author of Erotic Justice: A Liberating Ethic of Sexuality (1996) and a principal author of Keeping Body and Soul Together: Sexuality, Spirituality, and Social Justice (1991). Sylvia Thorson-Smith is a lecturer in religious studies and sociology at Grinnell College in Iowa. A former consultant and writer of several studies for the Presbyterian Church (USA), she is the author of Pornography: Far From the Song of Songs (1988) and Reconciling the Broken Silence (1993), and coeditor of Called Out With: Stories of Solidarity (1997). Thorson-Smith lives in Grinnell, Iowa.

Sylvia Thorson-Smith is a lecturer in religious studies and sociology at Grinnell College in Iowa. A former consultant and writer of several studies for the Presbyterian Church (USA), she is the author of Pornography: Far From the Song of Songs (1988) and Reconciling the Broken Silence (1993), and co-editor of Called Out With: Stories of Solidarity (1997). Thorson-Smith lives in Grinnell, Iowa.