Christian Sexuality and Postmodernism: The Emerging Issues

This study discusses the cultural deconstruction of human sexuality in the postmodern society. It examines the problem of the influence and extent of the emerging cultural and moral crises on human sexuality: Sexual revolution, Gender disorientation, Gay marriage, Sex commercialization, New Morality. The following research questions are therefore answered in this paper for a proper understanding of the postmodern society construct of human sexuality and the contextual implications it holds for the Christian community: What is the nature and dimension of post-modern view of human sexuality? ; What are the biblical values, injunction and presentation of sexuality/Christian sexuality?; How do this deconstruction of human sexuality influence and impinge on the church teachings on sexuality-its constructs, its context, its purpose, its sanctity, its spiritual dimension, its employment and its boundaries?; and what should guide the church community in formulating relevant theological response that can preserve biblical absolutes and Christian sexuality? These are evaluated from both the Old Testament and New Testament biblical sexuality and its moral absolutes. This is to provide helpful guidance for the church to understand biblical standard for sexual morality sexual morality standards clearly. This study points out the devastation and corrupting impact of postmodern constructs on Christian sexuality and the moral teachings of the church. This paper contends that the Christian community is under siege by this devastating incursion of the postmodern erosion of its traditional position on sexuality. There is obvious and dire need for the church, from its theological empowerments, to provide a more pragmatic and adequate response to these cultural constructions of biblical sexuality and be able to preserve a wholesome biblical legacy of Christian sexuality for the up-and-coming generation of Christians, who, perhaps, will face fiercer attack on biblical morality.