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Start Date
19-9-2023 2:15 PM
End Date
19-9-2023 3:00 PM
Keywords
2023 theological symposium, sexual purity, marriage, culture, christian, chastity, grace, celibacy, reformers, evangelicalism, cultural listening
Description
From the 1990s through the early 2010s, “Purity culture,” a movement marked by publications such as I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris (1997), rallies and revivals such as “Silver Ring Thing” founded by Denny and Amy Pattyn in 1995, and purity symbols such as the chastity ring, swept through North American mainstream evangelicalism. It is difficult to miss the relationship between this movement and the “ex-vangelical” movement, the great exodus of young people who are choosing to leave the institutional church, “deconstruct” their beliefs and question Christianity. How do the Lutheran Confessions speak to this large issue which permeates even our own congregations? How can we witness a generation of hurting American evangelicals who, in the midst of following a culture of purity, somehow lost their souls?
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Submission Cost
Free
Monastic Vows and Modern Purity Culture
From the 1990s through the early 2010s, “Purity culture,” a movement marked by publications such as I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris (1997), rallies and revivals such as “Silver Ring Thing” founded by Denny and Amy Pattyn in 1995, and purity symbols such as the chastity ring, swept through North American mainstream evangelicalism. It is difficult to miss the relationship between this movement and the “ex-vangelical” movement, the great exodus of young people who are choosing to leave the institutional church, “deconstruct” their beliefs and question Christianity. How do the Lutheran Confessions speak to this large issue which permeates even our own congregations? How can we witness a generation of hurting American evangelicals who, in the midst of following a culture of purity, somehow lost their souls?
