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title: 'The Moral Order of Sex'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Williamson Nevin'
date: 1850-11-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Anthropology (Doctrine of Man)'
- 'Family, Marriage, and Roles of Men and Women'
- 'Creation and Evolution'
scriptures:
- 'Genesis 1'
- 'Ephesians 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/nevin-1850-the-moral-order-of-sex
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# The Moral Order of Sex

Argues human morality rises from nature yet transcends it; sexual difference and the family are the primal moral root grounding social, artistic, scientific, and religious life.

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