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The Meaning of Sex: Christian Ethics and the Moral Life is unavailable, but you can change that!

Our culture is sex-crazed. That is no secret. But our culture is also deeply confused about sex and sexual ethics, often sending conflicting messages—at times promoting an “anything goes” attitude while at other times seeking to impose limits on sexual behavior. Unfortunately, Christians seem equally confused, and the church has tended to respond with simplistic answers. The reason for this...

The principles of purity, fidelity, and their derivate guidelines are certainly right in pointing to the kind of behavior God expects of his creation. As will be evident throughout this book, I believe that God has ordained sex to be expressed in the context of a covenant relationship of marriage between a man and a woman. But I differ somewhat in how this expectation is set forth and why we do so. The main problem historically with deontological or principle ethics is its frequent failure to set
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