Unchanging Witness: The Consistent Teaching on Homosexuality in Scripture and Tradition
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: The Body of Christ is going through a time of severe fracture. Schism is taking place on a scale not seen since the 16th century, and the reasons for this come into clear focus on the issue of homosexuality....
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The Body of Christ is going through a time of severe fracture. Schism is taking place on a scale not seen since the 16th century, and the reasons for this come into clear focus on the issue of homosexuality. The gay Christian movement and revisionist theologians and exegetes have set up an array of arguments, often mutually exclusive, in favor of homosexual practice. This book addresses these arguments on a single point: can they withstand the evidence of the primary sources?
The authors intend to articulate the orthodox view-Biblical teaching held everywhere, always, and by all-by presenting primary sources throughout Christian history and by interpreting the Biblical texts in their cultural context. The first part of the book makes available the key primary sources for understanding the Christian Church's view on homosexuality through the centuries. It opens with a chapter on the gay Christian movement and then works chapter by chapter through church history: the patristic period, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance and Reformation periods. It then explores teaching within different Christian traditions: the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches, the Evangelical movement, and mainline Protestant Churches, including the recent revisionist readings of the last few decades. The first part of the book concludes with an excursus on the Church's various views on slavery and women, in contrast to the consensus view of the Church on homosexual practice.
The second part of the book engages the more familiar Biblical material in the debate facing Christians today. Like the first part of the book, it focuses on primary sources while also engaging the revisionist interpretations of these texts. The relevant primary sources from the Ancient Near East, Jewish, Greek, and Roman literature are quoted and discussed alongside the Biblical passages. A fresh interpretation of the Biblical material involves, among other things, the story of Sodom, Israel's unique law against any homosexual acts, the meaning of "soft men" in Greek literature, the variety of homosexual practices in antiquity (not just pederasty), the various understandings of homosexual orientation in antiquity (including Paul), and the "nature versus nurture" argument in philosophy and Paul's letter to the Romans.
The book examines the conflicting and changing arguments of revisionist readings and argues that, in light of the overwhelming evidence of the relevant texts, the real issue is not one of interpretation but of Biblical authority and Christian orthodoxy.
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PRODUCT DETAIL
- Catalogue Code 431568
- Product Code 9781433687921
- ISBNÂ 1433687925
- EANÂ 9781433687921
- Pages 448
- Department Academic
- Category Christian Worldview
- Sub-Category General
- Publisher Broadman & Holman Academic
- Publication Date Feb 2016
- Sales Rank 72304
- Dimensions 228 x 152 x 20mm
- Weight 0.544kg
- :<div>part I: Christian Tradition And Homosexual Practice<br> &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<br><i>introduction To Part I</i><br><b>chapter 1: The Gay Christian Movement</b><br> &#160;<br><i>historic Christianity And Homosexual Practice</i><br><b>chapter 2: Church Fathers And A Distinct Christian Life</b><br> &#160;<br><b>chapter 3: The Middle Ages And Confessing Sin</b><br> &#160;<br><b>chapter 4: Renaissance And Reformation Confront Immorality</b><br> &#160;<br><i>the Modern Church And The Homosexual Crisis</i><br><b>chapter 5: Roman Catholics And Orthodox On Historic Faith</b><br> &#160;<br><b>chapter 6: Evangelicals On Scripture And Conversion</b><br> &#160;<br><b>chapter 7: The Mainline Church And Revisionist Christianity</b><br> &#160;<br><b>excursus: Slavery And Women</b><br> &#160;<br> &#160;<br> Part Ii: The Bible And Homosexuality<br> &#160;<br><i>introduction To Part Ii</i><br><b>chapter 8: Sexual Ethics In Scripture And The Early Church</b><br> &#160;<br><i>creation And Law: Old Testament Texts And Homosexual Practices&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </i><br><b>chapter 9: The Old Testament Texts Addressing Homosexual Practice</b>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<br> &#160;<br><b>chapter 10: Sodom&rsquo;s Sins </b><br> &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<br><b>chapter 11: Homosexuality In The Ancient Near East&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</b><br> &#160;<br><b>chapter 12: Jewish Views On Homosexuality After Old Testament Times</b><br> &#160;<br><i>creation, The Law, And The Gospel: New Testament Texts And Homosexual Practices</i>&#160; <b>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;<br> Chapter 13: The New Testament Texts Addressing Homosexual Practice&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </b><br> &#160;<br><b>chapter 14: General Teaching On Sexual Ethics In The New Testament</b><br> &#160;<br><b>chapter 15: Law, Holiness, And Purity For God&rsquo;s People: 1 Corinthians 5-7</b><br> &#160;<br><b>chapter 16: &ldquo;soft Men&rdquo; And &ldquo;homosexuals&rdquo; In 1 Corinthians 6:9</b><br> &#160;<br><b>chapter 17: Homosexual Orientation In Antiquity And Paul</b><br> &#160;<br><b>chapter 18: Paul&rsquo;s &lsquo;nature&rsquo;/creation And Nurture/&lsquo;law&rsquo; Argument In Romans&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; </b><br> &#160;<br><b>chapter 19: Revisionist Readings Of Romans 1:24-28</b><br> &#160;<br><b><i>conclusion</i></b><br> &#160;<br> &#160;</div>