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The Body and its Pleasure: Toward an Evangelical Sexual Ethic

June 18th, 2018 | 26 min read

By Matthew Lee Anderson

Note: Given the recent discussions about Revoice–a conference at which I am speaking–I asked Jake if he would republish the two chapters from my first book that are directly on questions of sexual desire. Today’s essay takes up how evangelicalism has depicted sex, and whether it comports with the Gospel (spoiler alert: it doesn’t). While I still agree with most of what I wrote, I also recognize it is woefully incomplete in some very important respects. Tomorrow’s essay will consider the question of homosexuality. 

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Matthew Lee Anderson

Matthew Lee Anderson is an Associate Professor of Ethics and Theology in Baylor University's Honors College. He has a D.Phil. in Christian Ethics from Oxford University, and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University's Torrey Honors College. In 2005, he founded Mere Orthodoxy.

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