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Gay Gospels, The – Good News For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgendered People

Good News for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered People

  • Paperback
  • 214 pages
  • Publisher: Circle Books
  • 14.6 x 21.7 x 1.4 cm

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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.
Gay Gospels, The – Good News For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgendered People and Is God Anti-Gay?
Is God Anti-Gay?Gay Gospels, The – Good News For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, And Transgendered People
  • Author

    Keith Sharpe

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Circle Books

  • Published

    July 2011

  • Weight

    258g

  • Page Count

    214

  • Dimensions

    14.6 x 21.7 x 1.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9781846945489

  • ISBN-10

    1846945488

  • Eden Code

    3977124

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