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Gay Gospels, The - Good News for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People (Paperback)
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Gay Gospels, The - Good News for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People (Paperback)
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List price R313
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Discovery Miles 2 840
You Save R29 (9%)
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The place of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people in the
Christian churches is a highly controversial issue. The stance of
all the mainline churches is that homosexuality is sinful and
incompatible with Christianity. In seeking to respond to attacks on
their lives, identities and relationships LGBT Christians have
moved over recent decades from a defensive position to a more
affirmative position which asserts that there is evidence in the
Bible and the Jesus tradition of validated homoerotic experience.
This book presents a systematic overview of both the defensive and
affirmative positions. In part one, The Defensive Testament, each
of the so-called 'biblical texts of terror' used to demonise LGBT
people is considered in turn and found wanting. None of them has
anything to say about consensual same sex love. In part two, The
Affirmative Testament, homoerotic elements in various Bible stories
including the healing of the centurion's servant, Jesus and the
beloved disciple, David and Jonathan, Ruth and Naomi are revealed
to make visible the place of LGBT lives in the Biblical tradition.
Taken together, these two testaments forcefully champion the
equality of LGBT people in the Kingdom of God and represent a
formidable challenge to ecclesiastical homophobia.
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