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A fresh, inviting text on the content of Christian faith in our contemporary context, this one-volume systematic theology offers an accessible, orthodox explication of the Christian faith for students, teachers, pastors, and serious lay readers alike. Cornelis van der Kooi and Gijsbert van den Brink not only cover all the traditional themes—God, creation, sin, Jesus Christ, Scripture, and so...

we are and can find its purpose only in the sexual act of procreation, every person who is unable to have children would be an incomplete human being. That would be to give sexuality and procreation too much honor. The second creation story immediately adds to the first account that, apart from this aspect of procreation, man and woman belong together (“a helper fit for”). This line of thought prompted other, especially Protestant, theologians to look for the essence of our sexuality in our relationality
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