Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships write by Karen R. Keen. This book was released on 2018-10-11. Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. WHEN IT COMES TO SAME-SEX RELATIONSHIPS, this book by Karen Keen contains the most thoughtful, balanced, biblically grounded discussion you’re likely to encounter anywhere. With pastoral sensitivity and respect for biblical authority, Keen breaks through current stalemates in the debate surrounding faith and sexual identity. The fresh, evenhanded reevaluation of Scripture, Christian tradition, theology, and science in Keen’s Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships will appeal to both traditionalist and progressive church leaders and parishioners, students of ethics and biblical studies, and gay and lesbian people who often feel painfully torn between faith and sexuality.
Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships
Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships write by Karen R. Keen. This book was released on 2018. Scripture, Ethics, and the Possibility of Same-Sex Relationships available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The church's response to the gay and lesbian community: a brief history -- Same-sex relations in ancient Jewish and Christian thought -- Key arguments in today's debate on same-sex relationships -- Fifty shekels for rape? Making sense of Old Testament laws -- What is ethical? Interpreting the Bible like Jesus -- The question of celibacy for gay and lesbian people -- Is it Adam's fault? Why the origin of same-sex attraction matters -- Imagining a new response to the gay and lesbian community.
Covenant and Calling
Covenant and Calling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Covenant and Calling write by Robert Song. This book was released on 2014-09-24. Covenant and Calling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No other issue in recent times has proved as potentially divisive for the churches as that of same-sex relationships. At the same time as many countries have been moving towards legal recognition of civil partnerships or same-sex marriage, Christian responses have tended towards either finding alliances with proponents of conservative social mores, or providing what amounts to theological endorsement of secular liberal values.
Bible, Gender, Sexuality
Bible, Gender, Sexuality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bible, Gender, Sexuality write by James V. Brownson. This book was released on 2013-02-03. Bible, Gender, Sexuality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Bible, Gender, Sexuality James Brownson argues that Christians should reconsider whether or not the biblical strictures against same-sex relations as defined in the ancient world should apply to contemporary, committed same-sex relationships. Presenting two sides in the debate -- "traditionalist" and "revisionist" -- Brownson carefully analyzes each of the seven main texts that appear to address intimate same-sex relations. In the process, he explores key concepts that inform our understanding of the biblical texts, including patriarchy, complementarity, purity and impurity, honor and shame. Central to his argument is the need to uncover the moral logic behind the biblical text. Written in order to serve and inform the ongoing debate in many denominations over the questions of homosexuality, Brownson's in-depth study will prove a useful resource for Christians who want to form a considered opinion on this important issue.
Still Time to Care
Still Time to Care - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Still Time to Care write by Greg Johnson. This book was released on 2021-12-07. Still Time to Care available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the start of the gay rights movement in 1969, evangelicalism's leading voices cast a vision for gay people who turn to Jesus. It was C.S. Lewis, Billy Graham, Francis Schaeffer and John Stott who were among the most respected leaders within theologically orthodox Protestantism. We see with them a positive pastoral approach toward gay people, an approach that viewed homosexuality as a fallen condition experienced by some Christians who needed care more than cure. With the birth and rise of the ex-gay movement, the focus shifted from care to cure. As a result, there are an estimated 700,000 people alive today who underwent conversion therapy in the United States alone. Many of these patients were treated by faith-based, testimony-driven parachurch ministries centered on the ex-gay script. Despite the best of intentions, the movement ended with very troubling results. Yet the ex-gay movement died not because it had the wrong sex ethic. It died because it was founded on a practice that diminished the beauty of the gospel. Yet even after the closure of the ex-gay umbrella organization Exodus International in 2013, the ex-gay script continues to walk about as the undead among us, pressuring people like me to say, "I used to be gay, but I'm not gay anymore. Now I'm just same-sex attracted." For orthodox Christians, the way forward is a path back to where we were forty years ago. It is time again to focus with our Neo-Evangelical fathers on care--not cure--for our non-straight sisters and brothers who are living lives of costly obedience to Jesus. With warmth and humor as well as original research, Still Time to Care will chart the path forward for our churches and ministries in providing care. It will provide guidance for the gay person who hears the gospel and finds themselves smitten by the life-giving call of Jesus. Woven throughout the book will be Richard Lovelace’s 1978 call for a "double repentance" in which gay Christians repent of their homosexual sins and the church repents of its homophobia--putting on display for all the power of the gospel.
