Christian theology has traditionally held desire at arm's length, regarding it warily, as something dark, dangerous, and intimately related to sin ùsomething to be resisted and repressed, closeted and controlled. But in this volume LeRon Shults and Jan-Olav Henriksen entreat Christians to acknowledge not only that desire is an important element of human physical and spiritual life (and therefore a subject that theology should never shy away from engaging) but also that desire can be a powerful force for great good. Shults, Henriksen, and six other boundary-crossing theologians celebrate together the positivity, the sociality, and the physicality of saving desire ù humankind's innate yearning for the goodness and beauty of God. Book jacket.