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Christian Sexual Ethics in the Greco-Roman World – Pr. Erkki Koskenniemi, 3/4/26 (0632)

Issues, Etc.

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Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Erkki Koskenniemi, author, “Love, Marriage and Family: Learning from the Early Christians”

Love, Marriage and Family: Learning from the Early Christians

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Living according to a Christian sexual ethic today feels like an uphill battle, but this battle isn't new.

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Love, marriage, and family, learning from the early Christians, is the Issues etc. book of the month for March.

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This book is published by Concordia Publishing House.

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Their phone number 1-800-325 3040.

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Or learn more about love, marriage, and family at issue ZTC.org.

0:24.4

Find out how Christian sexual ethics still means light in the darkness with love, marriage, and family,

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learning from the early Christians.

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Thank you. As quickly as things have changed in the 21st century, when it comes to sexual ethics and ideology, it's tempting to believe that we Christians are living in a stranger world than the world

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has ever been. But if we look at

0:56.3

the ancient world, the world where the first Christians made their homes and carried out their

1:02.4

vocations, it was a strange world too, and its sexual ethics were as perverse as anything we see

1:08.7

today. Greetings and welcome back to Issues Cedarra,

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joining us to talk about Christian sexual ethics

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in the Greco-Roman world, Dr. Erykikoska Nehemi.

1:19.1

He's a father of five sons and 12 grandchildren.

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He's a Finnish pastor and a Bible scholar

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with expertise in classical antiquity

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and early Judaism.

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He's author of the issues it said are a book of the month for March, love, marriage, and family,

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learning from the early Christians.

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Dr. Koska Niyami, welcome.

1:38.3

Thank you. It's a great honor to be here.

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