Interview with Allan Carlson
In an ironic twist, American evangelical leaders are joining
mainstream acceptance of contraception. Godly Seed: American
Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973, examines how
mid-twentieth-century evangelical leaders eventually followed the
mainstream into a quiet embrace of contraception, complemented by a
brief acceptance of abortion. It places this change within the
context of historic Christian teaching regarding birth control,
including its origins in the early church and the shift in
arguments made by the Reformers of the sixteenth century. The book
explores the demographic effects of this transition and asks: did
the delay by American evangelicals leaders in accepting birth
control have consequences?
At the same time, many American evangelicals are rethinking
their acceptance of birth control even as a majority of the
nation's Roman Catholics are rejecting their church's teaching on
the practice. Raised within a religious movement that has almost
uniformly condemned abortion, many young evangelicals have begun to
ask whether abortion can be neatly isolated from the issue of
contraception. A significant number of evangelical families have,
over the last several decades, rejected the use of birth control
and returned decisions regarding family size to God. Given the
growth of the evangelical movement, this pioneering work will have
a large-scale impact.
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