Surviving the “Sexplosion”: Christianity Today and Evangelical Sexual Ethics in the Long 1960s

This paper examines how the editors and contributors to Christianity Today (CT) called for an evangelical sexual ethics in the 1960s. Editors and contributors alike were concerned that the supposed sexual immorality on college campuses, the liberalization of obscenity laws, the approval and sale of...

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Auteur principal: Pattillo-Lunt, Aaron (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: MDPI [2021]
Dans: Religions
Année: 2021, Volume: 12, Numéro: 2
Sujets non-standardisés:B Conservatism
B Christianity Today
B the long 1960s
B Sexuality
B the sexual revolution
B Religion
B Evangelicalism
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Résumé:This paper examines how the editors and contributors to Christianity Today (CT) called for an evangelical sexual ethics in the 1960s. Editors and contributors alike were concerned that the supposed sexual immorality on college campuses, the liberalization of obscenity laws, the approval and sale of the birth control, and secular sex education programs threatened the United States’ social health. They believed that evangelicals needed to learn how to talk about sex, and this belief resulted in the development of conservative Protestant sex manuals by the middle of the 1970s. Overall, talk about sex in the pages of CT demonstrates that evangelicals are neither anti-sex nor traditionalists. They instead forged a new sexual ethic in response to the historical events and developments of the 1960s.
ISSN:2077-1444
Contient:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel12020112