Homosexuality and The Bible - Two views.

Dan Otto Via, Robert A. J. Gagnon

Fortress Press

1989

117 páginas

3h 54m

ISBN-10: 080063618X

Few recent issues have sparked such debate in the churches as homosexuality, same-sex unios, and ordination of gays an lesbians. A key point of contention is the meaning and authority of the biblical witness. In this brief book, two New Testament scholars discuss the relevant biblical tets on the subject of homosexual behavior and orientation. Discussing both Old Testament and New Testament texts, each author also raises imporatant interpetive and moral questions and then offers a response to he other's main assertions. Chief questions examined by each include what the Bible has to say about homosexuality and homosexual behavior, the meaning of those texts in their cultural contexts, and the larger hermeneutical dilemma of what kind of authoity the Bible's teaching, if recoverale, as for Christians today. A thoughtful and spirited dialogue, this volume can facilitate reflection and discssion among church memeberson a vital and contentious issu in American church life.