Homosexuality in the Church

Outstanding authorities on Scripture, tradition, reason, biology, ethics, and gendered experience discuss one of the most divisive debates in the church today: the place of homosexuals in the community of faith. Each perspective is explored by two writers, one more conservative, the other more liberal.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Contributors

xiii

Introduction: Risking to Listen and to Learn

xv

PART 1: REFLECTING ON SCRIPTURE

Awaiting the Redemption of Our Bodies: The Witness of Scripture Concerning Homosexuality

3

(15)

Richard B. Hays

The Bible and Homosexuality: Reading the Texts in Context

18

(21)

Victor Paul Furnish

PART 2: REFLECTING ON TRADITION

Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons (1986)

39

(10)

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger

Homosexuality: Challenging the Church to Grow

49

(12)

John J. McNeill

PART 3: REFLECTING ON MORAL REASONING

Homosexuality: A Case Study in Moral Argument

61

(15)

Lisa Sowle Cahill

Sources for Body Theology: Homosexuality as a Test Case

76

(17)

James B. Nelson

PART 4: REFLECTING ON SCIENTIFIC REASONING

Homosexuality: The Behavioral Sciences and the Church

93

(23)

Stanton L. Jones

Don E. Workman

Homosexuality and Biology

116

(21)

Chandler Burr

PART 5: REFLECTING ON EXPERIENCE

Another Option: Christianity and Ego-Dystonic Homosexuality

137

(8)

Joe Dallas

Overcoming Heterosexism---To Benefit Everyone

145

(5)

Virginia Ramey Mollenkott

The Love That Dare Not Pray Its Name: The Gay and Lesbian Movement in America's Churches

150

(11)

Chris Glaser

PART 6: MAKING DECISIONS

Sex, Philosophy, and Politics: How and What the Church Must Decide in the Debate over Ordination of Homosexuals

161

(17)

Jack Rogers

Homosexual Christians, the Bible, and Gentile Inclusion: Confessions of a Repenting Heterosexist

178

(31)

Jeffrey S. Siker

Appendix: Selected Denominational Statements on Homosexuality

Episcopal Church

195

(1)

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

196

(3)

Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)

199

(5)

Southern Baptist Convention

204

(1)

United Church of Christ

205

(2)

United Methodist Church

207

(2)

Selected Bibliography

209

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