Bibliograph

The gay gospels, good news for LGBT people, Keith Sharpe

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The gay gospels, good news for LGBT people, Keith Sharpe

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The gay gospels

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Keith Sharpe

Sub title

good news for LGBT people

Summary

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 demonize 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

Target audience

adult

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Gay gospels : good news for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people

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