The Bible and homosexual practice : texts and hermeneutics /
"Gagnon offers the most thorough analysis to date of the biblical texts relating to homosexuality. He demonstrates why attempts to classify the Bible's rejection of same-sex intercourse as irrelevant for our contemporary context fail to do justice to the biblical texts and to current scien...
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Nashville :
Abingdon Press,
[2001], ©2001
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Table of Contents:
- The witness of the Old Testament
- Same-sex intercourse as "contrary to nature" in early Judaism
- The witness of Jesus
- The witness of Paul and Deutero-Paul
- The hermeneutical relevance of the biblical witness
- Ch. 1 The Witness of the Old Testament
- I. The Ancient Near Eastern Background
- II. Genesis 1-3: Creation Stories
- III. Genesis 9:20-27: Ham's Act and Noah's Curse
- IV. Genesis 19:4-11: The Story of Sodom and Gomorrah
- V. Judges 19:22-25: The Rape of the Levite's Concubine
- VI. Homosexual Cult Prostitution in Israel
- VII. Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Laws
- VIII. David and Jonathan
- Ch. 2. Same-Sex Intercourse as "Contrary to Nature" in Early Judaism
- I. Procreation
- II. Gender Discomplementarity
- III. Excess Passion
- IV. Animal Heterosexuality
- Ch. 3. The Witness of Jesus
- I. The Context of Ancient Judaism and Jesus' View of Torah
- II. Jesus on Genesis and Male-Female Complementarity
- III. Deconstructing the Myth of a Sexually Tolerant Jesus
- IV. Love and Righteousness in the Ministry of Jesus
- Ch. 4. The Witness of Paul and Deutero-Paul
- I. Romans 1:24-27
- II. The Vice Lists in 1 Corinthians 6:9 and 1 Timothy 1:10
- Ch. 5. The Hermeneutical Relevance of the Biblical Witness
- I. The Bible condemns only exploitative, pederastic forms of homosexuality
- II. The Bible primarily condemns homosexuality because of its threat to male dominance
- III. The Bible has no category for "homosexuals" with an exclusively same-sex orientation; same-sex passion was thought to originate in over-sexed heterosexuals
- IV. Homosexuality has a genetic component that the writers of the Bible did not realize
- V. There are only a few biblical texts that speak directly to homosexuality
- VI. We do not follow all the injunctions in the Bible now, so why should those against homosexual conduct be binding?
- VII. Since we are all sinners anyway, why single out the sin of same-sex intercourse?