Bible, Gender, Sexuality

By James V. Brownson,

Book cover of Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships

Book description

Grapples conscientiously with biblical texts at the heart of the church's debate over same-sex relationships

This thought-provoking book by James Brownson develops a broad, cross-cultural sexual ethic from Scripture, locates current debates over homosexuality in that wider context, and explores why the Bible speaks the way it does about same-sex…

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1 author picked Bible, Gender, Sexuality as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Stories are powerful. They open us up to asking questions we might not have known or felt we could ask before hearing them. When conservative Christians are open to rethinking their beliefs on sex and gender, they need Bible scholars to help them make sense of their Christian faith as they have received it.

New Testament scholar James Brownson offers them exactly that, especially in the sections where he writes about sex/gender complementarity. When many conservative Christians learn about intersex, they often jump to questions of same-sex relationships and transgender identities.

Fifty-two percent of intersex people also identify as LGBTQ+.…

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