THE FIRE WITHIN:
Desire, Sexuality, Longing, and God
Ronald Rolheiser
Contents
Preface
Part One: Who We Are
1/ We Are Made for Longing
2/ Raw Desire
3/ Feeding off Sacred Fire
4/ Restless Hearts Yearn for God
5/ Caverns of Feeling
6/ Dark Memory
7/ Our Congenital Complexity
8/ Our Struggle with Grandiosity
9/ In Praise of Skin
Part Two: Applications
10/ Sex as Sacrament
11/ The Sacramentality of Everyday Life
12/ Understanding the Desert of Loneliness
13/ An Honest Anger
14/ Desire into Prayer
15/ Sexuality
16/ Re-imagining Chastity
17 / What Is Purity?
18 / Living with Feeling and Soul
19/ A Plea for the Soul
20 / What We Long For