By now the discourse surrounding Joshua Ryan Butler’s book excerpt published at the Gospel Coalition has in some ways exhausted itself. To be sure, Butler’s intentions for the text — to highlight and commend the beauty of the Christian sex ethic — is fairly clear, as is his indebtedness to a certain mystical stream in Christian theology. They are, indeed, sufficiently clear to make the accusation that his is an abuse apologia absurd.
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