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The Sexual Reformation - Restoring the Dignity and Personhood of Man and Woman (Paperback)
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The Sexual Reformation - Restoring the Dignity and Personhood of Man and Woman (Paperback)
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Since the Reformation, Protestants have confessed that the church
is reformed and always reforming. But do we really believe this?
Why, then, are we so shocked to hear that the church itself needs a
sexual reformation? That the church has been fighting to uphold
biblical distinction between the sexes against a culture that is
rapidly and aggressively challenging this, is certainly one reason.
But in trying to be faithful to the beauty of God's design for man
and woman, the church has instead latched onto a pagan,
Aristotelian concept of man and woman--that woman is by nature
inferior to man--which robs us of the dignity of personhood as man
and woman created in the image of God. Much of the evangelical
teaching on the sexes is based on cultural stereotypes and an
unbiblical ontology of male authority and female subordination.
While some try to correct this, they often flatten the meaningful
distinctions in the feminine and masculine gift. We end up missing
the beautiful message that our bodies, and our whole selves as men
and women, tell: the story of the great joy in which Christ
received his gift of his bride, the church. Having taken on flesh,
he is bringing her to the holy of holies, ushering her behind the
veil, and securing communion with his bridal people in sacred
space. He gave himself as the ultimate Gift and he loves us to the
end. We see this highlighted in the book placed right in the middle
of our Bibles. The Song of Songs enfleshes our hope as it
poetically sings the metanarrative of Scripture. In this book,
Aimee Byrd invites you to enter into the Song's treasures as its
lyrics reveal a typology in God's design of man and woman, one that
unfolds throughout the canon of Scripture. The meaning of man and
woman extends beyond biology, nature, and culture to give us a
glimpse of what is to come. Our bodies are theological. They are
visible signs that tell us something about our God. This
often-ignored biblical book has much to teach us about Christ, his
church, man, and woman. It teaches us the whole point of it all.
And what it teaches us is not a list of roles and hierarchy, but a
love song. We are ripe for a sexual reformation in the church, and
recovering a good theological anthropology is imperative to it. We
desperately need to peel away the Aristotelian mindset of man and
woman that still pervades much of the teaching on gender and
sexuality in the church today.?The Holy Spirit is speaking to us in
his Word to bring about a sexual reformation. He invites us to sing
an eschatological song. In doing so, we find ourselves in it. We
participate in it. We find beauty in it. We persevere by it. It
changes us.
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