Re: The Puritan View of Sexuality

[Kristen Ulrich <youaremorethanyouthinkyouare at yahoo_com>]

Amen brother!!!!  A thousand times over!
--- FABoyer at aol_com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 10/20/01 3:53:08 AM,
> Owner-Over-The-Rhine at actwin_com 
> writes:
> 
> << << the reading of 
>  it by Catholic priests was discouraged by Rome for
> a while, and the 
>  Puritans tended to ignore it.  >>
> 
> Thanks...I couldn't remember if it suffered from
> Catholic or Baptist censor. 
> All I could recall l was that there was a move to
> remove it from the 
> Scriptures because some thought it was pornographic
> in nature. >>
> 
> Puritan Sexuality is not an oxymoron or a call to
> celibacy.  Puritans 
> actually celebrated the marriage bed and like Luther
> departed from the 
> Catholic teaching that sex was primarily for
> procreation.  Their teaching on 
> this was considered radical for many Christians at
> the time, including most 
> Protestants.  This is because centuries of Catholic
> teaching had become the 
> normative understanding.
> 
> Puritans saw sexual intimacy as a powerful
> connection between husband and 
> wife, intended for pleasure and not just being
> fruitful and multiplying.  
> They saw SoS as being a part of the "whole counsel
> of God" and thus to be 
> taken as seriously as any other book in the Bible.
> 
> They also took seriously the New Testament command
> that husbands and wives 
> should regularly come together for the purpose of
> mutual sexual satisfaction. 
>  To do less for reasons other than a period of
> prayer and fasting is clearly 
> taught to be not what God desires.
> 
> In fact there is an account of a wife in the Puritan
> movement that came to 
> the elders of her church and initiated steps of
> church discipline against her 
> husband because he was ignoring her sexually.  The
> elders fully supported her.
> 
> Leyland Ryken of Wheaton College has a good book
> about the Puritans (I can't 
> remember the title and it is sitting on the shelf at
> my office.  E-mail me 
> direct if you would like the full bibliographical
> info).  The name comes from 
> a desire to purify the church, not primary from a
> desire for moral purity.  
> They were concerned with living holy lives and in
> their understanding this 
> included taking all the Biblical record with regard
> to sexuality into account.
> 
> The Puritans valued lives of discipline, but that
> does not mean that they 
> were against fun.  In their understanding fun was a
> part of a truly 
> disciplined life.  Although there church practices
> were fairly simple and 
> devoid of frivolity, this was largely a reaction to
> the empty ceremony and 
> casual attitude that they saw in the Church of
> England in their day.  Outside 
> of church they enjoyed music, recreation, good food
> for celebration.  
> Although they are primarily portrayed as dressing
> the black, this was not 
> truly the case.
> 
> This is not to say they were without their faults. 
> All human beings have 
> their faults and blind spots and the Puritans had
> theirs, individually and as 
> a movement.  But, in the present day their is little
> recognition, even among 
> Christians, of their virtues.   They have certainly
> gotten a "bad rap".
> 
> Watching Eternity,
> Andy B.
> 
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References:

• The Puritan View of Sexuality
• From: FABoyer at aol_com

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