Romans 1 and Homosexuality: A Critical Review of James Brownson's "Bible, Gender, Sexuality"
In the flurry of recent books about homosexuality and the Bible, James Brownson's Bible, Gender, Sexuality offers a very convincing defense of same-sex marriage. However, Brownson makes several historical assumptions that are inaccurate, which end up working against his thesis. For instance, co...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Eisenbrauns
2014
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Bulletin for biblical research
Year: 2014, Volume: 24, Issue: 4, Pages: 515-528 |
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Summary: | In the flurry of recent books about homosexuality and the Bible, James Brownson's Bible, Gender, Sexuality offers a very convincing defense of same-sex marriage. However, Brownson makes several historical assumptions that are inaccurate, which end up working against his thesis. For instance, contrary to Brownson, the ancient world did hold to a form of sexual orientation and there are examples of peer homosexual relationships. Therefore, there is no reason to believe that Paul only had excessively immoral same-sex relationships in his mind when he penned Romans 1. |
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ISSN: | 2576-0998 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Bulletin for biblical research
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/26371313 |