Praxis Makes Perfectionist

The Puritan Reformed Seminary Journal, 2016

Quaker Religious Thought, 2005

Dialog, 2012

The book Sex at Dawn was published in 2010 and quickly became a best-seller, receiving kudos from well-known personages such as sex advice columnist Dan Savage, and primatologist Frans de Waal (Savage calling it the -most important book on human sexuality‖ since Kinsey's 1948 Sexual Behavior of the Human Male 1 ; de Waal dubbing it an -exciting book‖ that raises issues that will -need debating over and over‖ 2 ). Sex at Dawn appears to have struck a chord with a certain starry-eyed segment of the reading public, as well as some academics who should know better.

Contexts, 2016

This article complicates a popular notion that conservative religions are incompatible with sexual expression and pleasure. Case studies from Orthodox Judaism and evangelical Protestant Christianity demonstrate a breadth of sexual expressions and negotiations of desire and sin that defy the association of conservative religions with sexual repression.

Quaker Religious Thought, 2013

The book: Troubling Ethical waters: A Christian Perspective of Human Sexuality, written by a university don, moral theologian/Christian ethicist, chaplain and catholic priest of the Makurdi Diocese, Very Rev. Fr. (Dr.) Pius Ajiki, is a twelve-chapter work with two appendixes which centers on contentious and very topical ethical issues of global concern and the response of the catholic church to the identified issues. The work under review adopts a logical and critical analysis of some of the absolute teachings of the Catholic Church. The motivation to do this stems from the Papacy through the constructive revolutionary thought of Professor Joseph Ratzinger new Pope Benedict xvi. He observes in one of his writings that ‘not all things that exist in the church must, for that reason be equally legitimate tradition’. He stresses that ‘not every tradition that arises in the church is a true celebration and keeping present the mystery of Christ’. He further argues that there is a distorting, as well as legitimate tradition… (and)… consequently, tradition must not be considered only affirmatively but also critically’. Clearly, the work under consideration is premised on the revolutionary thinking that though tradition may be adored and even savoured, it must not only be affirmatively considered but critically too. In his discussion of ‘The Ethics of Sexuality in Christian Perspective’ as a curtain raiser on ethical issues discussed in chapter one, Very Rev. Fr. (Dr) Ajiki though admits the difficulty of sexual morality as a subject of analysis, re-echoes the Catholic Church’s position on sexuality pointing out two purposes of sexual relationship: “unitive” and “procreative”. He adds that to exercise responsible sexuality in practice, the couple must be intentionally committed to a permanent partnership and love.

Journal of Religion, 2002

The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, 2006