Denny Burk - What Is the Meaning of Sex?

This is a welcomed addition to a subject humans can never think about or talk about enough! It is biblically and theologically faithful, but it is also quite practical. All the hot button issues are addressed fairly and comprehensively. Pastor-theologians will especially appreciate this fine treatment of an issue the Bible clearly addresses and our culture has hopelessly confused.

Daniel L. Akin, President, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Sexual confusion is one of the hallmarks of our age. Denny Burk steps into the midst of this confusion with a book that is as rich in theological insight as it is relevant to the challenge and the controversies of our day. We are in debt to Denny Burk for his careful thinking, practical application, and biblical convictionall of which are on full display in this important new book.

R. Albert Mohler Jr., President and Joseph Emerson Brown Professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Questions are swirling about as to the nature of human sexuality. Denny Burk reminds us that the answers to our questions are found in Scripture. He demonstrates conclusively that human sexuality is designed to bring glory to God. Gods glory is the purpose and heartbeat of our lives, and that includes our life as sexual beings. Burks study is exegetically faithful, culturally aware, and filled with practical wisdom.

Thomas R. Schreiner , James Buchanan Harrison Professor of New Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

It is ironic that the most private and intimate activity that takes place in human lifesexual intercoursehas become the most pressing public political issue of our day. This makes it imperative that Christians think clearly about this matter. In this book, Dr. Burk offers a thoughtful, clear, and candid analysis of the issues. In doing so he has produced a volume which will be of great usefulness to pastors and people alike in thinking through the myriad ethical issues the church, families, and individual Christians now face.

Carl R. Trueman, Paul Woolley Professor of Church History, Westminster Theological Seminary

Denny Burk is a Christian leader who is not afraid to take on the sexual revolution with the sword of the Spirit. His prophetic witness will help equip you to embrace what seems freakish in todays pornotopia: the joy of sex, rightly ordered toward the glory of God.

Russell D. Moore, President, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission; author, Tempted and Tried

This is a readable, enjoyable, practical, encouraging, wholesome, balanced, wise, refreshing, and deeply biblical approach to the ethics of human sexuality. This book is deeply needed in todays confused society. I highly recommend it!

Wayne Grudem, Research Professor of Theology and Biblical Studies, Phoenix Seminary

Denny Burk has produced an elegant, comprehensive, and highly instructive book on human sexuality, as understood biblically, ethically, and theologically. Every pastor and seminary professor could benefit much from reading and interacting with the lucid discussions he offers, and all Christians will find here enormous help in thinking through the meaning of sexuality from a solid biblical perspective. This book will serve the church for decades to come in providing its sane and wise guidance.

Bruce A. Ware, Professor of Christian Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

We live in a culture saturated in sexual immorality. The church can only properly address this culture when our ministry is drawn from the deep well of sound doctrine. Denny Burk draws water from this well and serves it up for Christians to drink. His book is richly biblical and profoundly relevant, and so serves as a reliable guide to the challenging questions of sexual ethics facing us today. If you want to understand these complexities and help others to do the same, then this book is for you.

Heath Lambert, Executive Director, The National Association of Nouthetic Counselors; Associate Professor of Biblical Counseling, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Boyce College

In a day of twisted thinking on marriage, gender, and sex, Dr. Burk gives us scripturally grounded, biblically solid, scholarly, practical insights into the intimate moments of life that should bring glory to God and the fulfillment of his beautiful plan.

Mac Brunson, Senior Pastor, First Baptist Church Jacksonville, Florida

Responding to the song of the Sirens, our culture steers to dash itself to death on the rocks of sexual sin. In this book, Denny Burk shows the way to the mast of biblical truth and urges us to lash ourselves to it. Read this book. Stop your ears. Turn from deadly sirens to the Lord Christ. Live.

James M. Hamilton Jr., Associate Professor of Biblical Theology, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; author, Gods Glory in Salvation through Judgment

Dr. Burk has made a groundbreaking contribution to the modern debate on sexuality. He presents the biblical view of sex and demolishes current attempts to misrepresent the same. His application of biblical truth to contemporary cultural issues in sexuality is crystal clear. Whether a Christian pastor or believer, this volume will be your go-to book for help in engaging the changing sexual landscape.

Jerry Vines, Pastor-Emeritus, First Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Florida; two-time President, Southern Baptist Convention

Denny Burk is one of evangelicalisms brightest young minds, and he brings that mind to bear in What Is the Meaning of Sex? This book is a thorough, biblical, and judicious engagement of all things sexual. Burk biblically rebuts the sexual spirit of the age and equips the reader to confront the pressing cultural and ethical issues associated therewith. I wish every student in my seminary would read this.

Jason K. Allen, President, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and College

Clear writing, thoughtful arguments, wise positions, courageous countercultural stand. I learned some things I didn't know and honed what I did. Denny is a skilled Bible interpreter and shrewd critic of politics and culture.

Andy Naselli, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Biblical Theology, Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis

Denny Burk is a true sexual revolutionarynot a revolutionary defined by 1960s standards, of course, but a revolutionary against the spirit of todays sexual zeitgeist, which is marked by sexual confusion and brokenness. Denny calls us away from an Eisenhower-era sexual Puritanism and toward a view of biblical sexual ethicspatterned after the gospelthat connects us to Jesuss cross and resurrection. Anyone familiar with Dennys blogging will know his seamless arguments and elegant prose, a treat this book amplifies. And as he does in his blogging, Denny tackles todays toughest issues with biblical grit.

Andrew T. Walker, Director of Policy Studies, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission

For Susan,
You are still lovelier to me
Than anyone could ever be.

PROSPERO: Then as my gift and thine own acquisition
Worthily purchasd, take my daughter. But
If thou dost break her virgin-knot before
All sanctimonious ceremonies may
With full and holy rite be ministred,
No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall
To make this contract grow; but barren hate,
Sour-eyd disdain, and discord shall bestrew
The union of your bed with weeds so loathly
That you shall hate it both. Therefore take heed,
As Hymens lamps shall light you.

FERDINAND: As I hope
For quiet days, fair issue, and long life,
With such love as tis now, the murkiest den,
The most opportune place, the strongst suggestion