The Naked Truth: Revealing Things We Hide Behind: The Naked Truth: Revealing Things We Hide Behind

The world has changed before our eyes. In only a century, ancient landmarks crumbled and among the discarded ruins are gender distinctions that had been intertwined with everyday life for thousands of years. Tony Robinson pieces together common threads regarding wardrobe, gender expectations, and the roles we play, stitching them to historical and biblical underpinnings of both gender identity and worship of God. He then peels this fabric back to expose the naked truth of the things we hide behind in life, death, and the afterlife, revealing a forgotten significance and worldview that is more than skin deep. Unlike most sources that address adornment and gender identity, The Naked Truth: Revealing Things We Hide Behind uses an ontological perspective to explain in a multifaceted way things that are usually overlooked or misunderstood."Cultures change; therefore, this change in culture is good," is the circular logic claim used by many churches today when it comes to gender-based ideals. Tony Robinson takes a different approach to explain the scriptural and social importance of things we hide behind, all within the framework of a systematic applied theology. The reader will be presented a question upon gender-based adornment, followed by a solid study in Biblical rules of interpretation, law, history, passages on adornment and gender roles, as well as a multifaceted investigation into worldview repercussions related to the human body. In one sense, this is a theology textbook that uses significant details of the human body, its origin, destiny, parts, functions, how we treat it, and what we do with it to help reveal worldview lessons influencing society. In doing so, Tony Robinson reveals but goes far beyond the topics of modest attire and sexual immorality that Christian books about the human body typically focus upon. The last chapter contains review questions for each chapter, many of the questions include new material related to the chapter they are addressing. This chapter of questions lends itself to classroom, group discussion, or private meditation that can help the reader to think through the book's material for application within daily life. Why is the last chapter written like this? Because the author believes that why you believe something and whether you translate that belief into practice is more important than simply saying that you believe something.