![]() ![]() The book overshot Scripture and elevated specific behaviors, including sex outside of marriage, as "unforgivable sins," Keller said, and "went far beyond the Christian sex ethic to argue that you should not ‘date’ or even kiss someone unless you were sure you were going to marry them." In the Greco-Roman era, men of higher social status were permitted to demand sex of anyone of lower social status even if they were married.īy contrast, purity culture is a phenomenon that arose in recent decades in some churches with the ascendancy of the book I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris, a book Harris has since apologized for and now rejects. That meant that anyone who within marriage exploited or abused was violating the Christian sex ethic just as much or more as those who had sex outside of marriage," he said. ![]() "It was based on a radical egalitarian principle that the husband’s body belonged to the wife, and the wife’s to the husband (1 Corinthians 7:4). Keller explained in a Facebook post that in the early church, the Christian sexual ethic - that "sex was only for within a mutual, whole-self-giving, super-consensual life-long covenant" - was "revolutionary," given the prevailing Greco-Roman ethic of the day. What's often referred to as "purity culture" is not the same thing as remaining sexually abstinent outside of marriage, though many conflate the two, according to Tim Keller, founder and former pastor of Redeemer Church in New York City. ![]() Timothy Keller speaks at Movement Day Global Cities at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, October 27, 2016. ![]()
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