The Meaning of Sex: Part 2, the Purification of Love
The Meaning of Sex: Part 2, the Purification of Love
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Section titled “Highlights”- This is how to make sex mean more without piling on shame. Eros is an arena where we learn agape. Just like we’re learning to be like Jesus in every arena of our life.
- For as we are embarrassingly aware, plagued as they have been with pornography, scandal, and divorce, conservative Christians marriages haven’t been a real bright spot. This is mainly because the conservative Christian sexual ethic hasn’t focused upon love but upon the When? and the Who? When can you have sex and with whom? What happened, in this attention to the exteriors of the sexual relationship, is what Jesus describes in the gospels: We clean the outside of the cup but leave the inside filthy and dirty. We’ve failed to speak about how eros isn’t a playground of self-satisfaction but a training ground for service and sacrifice. We fail in making eros Christological and cruciform.