Sexuality and Wholeness indicates that to be 'sexual`is to exist in a state of secession and incompleteness, longing to be restored. Once this door has been opened, we see what a broad field of enquiry and symbolism opens up before us in both scripture and literature. Wholeness points to the healing embrace we desire. In Biblical language, wholeness is a function of simplicity. Varden develops this theme as the simplicity of sight, drawing on scripture, literature, music, painting and sculpture.
