The fall of the intellectual Where have all the great thinkers gone? In the month before it was pulled by its publisher because of its author’s alleged sexual predations, Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth produced an outpouring of terrifically entertaining reviews in the literary pages of East Coast periodicals – the New Republic,
Harper’s and the
New Yorker. The essays were a lot of fun; they were also implicitly nostalgic for the novelistic world that Roth so egomaniacally bestrode. At Toni Morrison’s death in 2019 I suggested in the
New York Times that she might be the last “Great American Novelist”, meaning not the last good novelist (good novels are still regularly published) but the last writer who “made novels seem essential to an educated person’s understanding of her country”. That might be premature – Cormac McCarthy is still living, after all – but in the sheer energy and delight of the Roth reviews you can feel a cultural pul
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Timothy Keller speaks at Movement Day Global Cities at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City, October 27, 2016. | The Christian Post/Leonardo Blair
What s often referred to as purity culture is not the same thing as remaining sexually abstinent outside of marriage, though many conflate the two, according to Tim Keller, founder and former pastor of Redeemer Church in New York City.
Keller explained in a Facebook post that in the early church, the Christian sexual ethic â that sex was only for within a mutual, whole-self-giving, super-consensual life-long covenant â was revolutionary, given the prevailing Greco-Roman ethic of the day. It was based on a radical egalitarian principle that the husbandâs body belonged to the wife, and the wifeâs to the husband (1 Corinthians 7:4). That meant that anyone who within marriage exploited or abused was violating the Christian sex ethic just as much or more as those who had sex outside of marriage, he sai
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