Your Body Is Holy

The Christian Understanding of Sex

Paul Tyson

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Wipf & Stock Publishers
22 September 2025

New Testaments; Christian life & practice; Christian aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships; Christian social thought & activity

The Christian understanding of sex is defined by categories of right worship, the iconic and sacred meaning of the sexed human body, and the marriage of Christ to the church. Centrally, the love of God as the first reality of our lives (right worship) defines the love of one's neighbor as oneself (sexual ethics). This Christian understanding has unique signatures that many young people today, even in our churches, have no inkling of. This book unpacks and explains the distinctive ways in which sex is understood by Jesus and the apostles and how this distinctive understanding shapes Christian sexual commitments and behaviors. For real human flourishing in sexual relationships comes only through the blessing of God. Once the core spiritual truths of a biblical outlook on human sexuality are clear, the book then seeks to understand pornography, feminism, queer gender-identity, trans-sexualism, and homosexuality, in a Christian light. In a time of great confusion about sex, great damage from sexual relationships, and a culture that habituates us in self-focused individualism, there is great need for the liberating gospel way in this domain. If you are a Christian and confused about the meaning of sex, then this book is for you.

By: Paul Tyson
Imprint: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 5mm
Weight: 113g
ISBN: 9798385259090
Pages: 90
Publication Date: 22 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Paul Tyson is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry at the University of Queensland. His doctorate was in sociology, and he has post-graduate qualifications in philosophy and theology. Tyson has also been a high school teacher and was the chaplain at Brisbane State High School for four years around the turn of the century. He is the author of Returning to Reality (Cascade, 2014) and A Christian Theology of Science (2022).

Reviews for Your Body Is Holy: The Christian Understanding of Sex

""Paul Tyson is a brave and brilliant author. Brave because he exposes many sexual shibboleths across gender fluidity, Jesus's alleged sexual silence, modern indifference to procreation, etc. Brilliant in affirming a biblical, creational, and Great Commandment-based re-sacralizing of sexuality from both vertical-divine and horizontal-human beams of Jesus's Cross."" --Gordon Preece, Director, Ethos Evangelical Alliance Centre for Christianity and Society ""A tract for the times, Your Body Is Holy is courageous, timely, and readable. It gives voice to a sentiment that people are increasingly rediscovering: Sex is not just a physical act, it is a sacred reality."" --Hans Boersma, Saint Benedict Servants of Christ Chair, Ascetical Theology, Nashotah House Theological Seminary ""In Your Body is Holy, Paul Tyson offers young people the counsel they need to navigate the turbulent waters of human sexuality today. Tyson reframes ethical questions by inviting his readers to see themselves--body and spirit--as bearers of the image of God, and sexual love therefore as a meeting place of heaven and earth."" --Jeanne Schindler, Fellow, John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family