In what is now the fourth installment of responses to Haley Baumeister’s original post against vasectomies, I take up Andrew Koperski’s critique of my article on the need for better moral guidance on sex.1 Koperski misunderstands my intentions and raises many good points on the use of Christian history and its application to modern theological issues. Koperski may be surprised to learn that I have already made many of these critiques in a separate lecture I gave at a Protestant Theology of the Body conference in 2023, which I am currently modifying and expanding into a short book. Koperski and I agree that Christian history (or “tradition,” as our Catholic friends call it) should be interpreted carefully. Where we seem to differ is in what we think this difficulty means for our attempts to apply historic Christian teaching to our contemporary situation.
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