Christianity Today recently published a three-part article series, claiming Christians are finally debating sterilization (vasectomies and tubal ligation). The announcement that this debate was raging was news to most of us who consistently debate Christian issues online. The series pushes on contraception, sterilization, and Christian sexual ethics that many ordinary evangelicals will instinctively recognize as foreign to the Protestant theology they inherited. The series included:
- Men Should Bear the Brunt of Contraception by Justin Whitmel Earley
- What the Awkwardness of Sterilization Tells Us by Katelyn Walls Shelton
- Christians Need Clearer Thinking About Sterilization by Matthew Lee Anderson
At first glance, the articles appear to be a simple call for Christians to think more carefully about vasectomies and sterilization. But taken together, the series advances something much larger: a new evangelical anthropology rooted less in historic Protestant theology and more in a sacramentalized “theology of the body” framework borrowed heavily from Roman Catholic natural-law ethics.
Head over to Reformation Journal to read the entire essay.
