The Intimate Marriage
Dr. R.C. Sproul has taught a series and
written book on marriage. In these resources, Dr. Sproul walks through
some of the toughest things couples struggle with today: lack of
communication, sex, roles, divorce, anger, and more. He shares what the
Bible says about each, as well as lessons He has learned from his own
marriage of forty years.
Watch: You can watch The Intimate Marriage series online for free.
Read: You can purchase The Intimate Marriage book from the Ligonier store.
The Puritan’s View of Sex in Marriage
There are many caricatures and missinformation when it comes to how
Christians through the ages have viewed sex in marriage. In Dr. Joel R.
Beeke’s Living for God’s Glory: An Introduction to Calvinism, he dedicates a chapter to marriage, in which he discusses the Puritan’s view.
Marital love must be sexual, so that both
marital partners can give themselves fully to each other with joy and
exuberance in a healthy relationship marked by fidelity. Reformers such
as Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Calvin established this
aspect of marriage by abandoning the medieval Roman Catholic attitudes
that marriage was inferior to celibacy, that all sexual contact between
marital partners was a necessary evil to propagate the human race, and
that a procreative act that involved passion was inherently sinful. Continue at Ligonier
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