New book pulls no punches as it reveals the true victims of the sexual and cultural revolutions
SAN FRANCISCO — Was Christianity always the answer to the horrors brought about by the sexual revolution: millions of abortions, broken marriages, children without a mother and father? Nathanael Blake argues for the return of authentic love to our culture to heal the vast wounds of the sexual revolution in his new book, VICTIMS OF THE REVOLUTION: HOW SEXUAL LIBERATION HURTS US ALL (Ignatius Press).
Blake is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is a regular columnist for The Federalist, WORLD Opinions, and other popular publications. He received his doctorate from the Catholic University of America. He lives in Virginia with his wife and children.
The sexual revolution offered happiness and great sex — but Americans are increasingly lonely and unhappy, and they even report having less, and less satisfying, sex. Rather than providing fulfilling pleasure, sexual liberation has created a relational wasteland in which men and women are alienated from each other. But there is an answer, reveals Blake in VICTIMS OF THE REVOLUTION, and it lies in traditional Christian morals and values.
Ryan T. Anderson writes in the foreword to VICTIMS OF THE REVOLUTION that Blake has written a truly radical book, one that is fearless in confronting how deeply the pains of the sexual revolution go into the culture but also delivering sound solutions and answers: living out the Christian teachings on sexuality.
“Blake offers a compelling ‘apocalypse’ — that is, unveiling — of the sexual revolution’s false promises,” said Christopher West, Th.D., president of the Theology of the Body Institute. “But that so-called freedom has come at the price of having lost the only freedom that truly matters: the freedom to love. He demonstrates that true sexual freedom is not the liberty to indulge one’s compulsions but liberation from the compulsion to indulge. Only such a person is free to put his or her sexual powers at the service of self-giving love.”
For more information, to request a review copy, or to schedule an interview with Nathanael Blake, please contact Kevin Wandra (404-788-1276 or [email protected]) of Carmel Communications.
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