Caroline Simon INTAMS review | Volume 15 | Issue 1 | Spring 2009 | Pages 76 > 87 Redemptive Engagement with Cultural Conceptions of Sexuality (Summary) Six "lenses" that shape how people see sexuality in postmodern, Western cultures are presented. Two of these are traditional Christian views: the Procreative View held by traditional Roman Catholicism and the Covenantal View held by traditional Protestants. The four secular views presented are the Romantic View of sexuality, Power View of sexualiy, the Expressive View, and the Plain Sex view. We frequently see the world through multiple understandings of sexuality without realizing this. Moreover, dialogue among those with differing conceptions of sexuality is often thwarted by accusations of judgmentalism. Christian views on sexuality are connected in the popular imagination with rules and prescriptions about how to conduct ourselves sexuality. But all of the six views of sexuality are value-laden accounts. By telling us how sex matters they each imply that certain ways of relating sexually are normal, natural, or better and that other ways of relating sexually are perverse, substandard or wrong. The article urges the need for self-reflection, judiciousness, and honest dialogue as we seek redemptive engagement with cultural understandings of sexuality. Caroline J. Simon, born in 1953, is John and Jeanne Jacobson Professor of Philosophy at Hope College in Holland, MI, USA. Her MA and PhD in Philosophy are from the University of Washington, in Seattle, WA. She specializes in ethics, with an emphasis on the use of literature in moral reflection; she has also published books and articles of the nature of Christian Higher Education. She is the author of The Disciplined Heart: Love, Destiny and Imagination (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 1997), and the co-author of Mentoring for Mission: Nurturing New Faculty at Church-Related Colleges (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2003) and Can Hope Endure? A Case Study in Church-Related Higher Education (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans 2005), and has published many articles on moral knowledge, virtue ethics, friendship and sexuality.