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On Contraception, Tradition, and the Wise(r) Use of Christian History

October 27th, 2025 | 9 min read

By Andrew Koperski

As a Protestant father with a growing family, I have followed with interest this magazine’s publications over the last few months treating contraception, a Protestant theology of the body, and whether there is already too much discourse around this constellation of subjects. I am also an ancient historian whose intellectual attention toggles between the twenty-first century and late antiquity, so my attention tends to perk up when contemporary theological disputes make sweeping claims about Christian history.

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