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"Does the Bible Regard
Same-Sex Intercourse as Intrinsically Sinful? An Evaluation of Mark
Powell's Essay in Faithful Conversation (Sections I-III)"
(July 2003)
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This online article contains the first three sections of an
essay, under the same title, published in a collection of essays
entitled
Christian Sexuality:
Normative and Pastoral Principles
(ed. Russell Saltzman; Minneapolis: Kirk House, 2003), 106-155 (the
online notes for which can be found below). Because the original essay was too long to
be incorporated in its entirety in the Christian Sexuality
volume, the first three sections of the seven-section essay were
summarized briefly for the print edition. The unabridged original for
sections I-III is found here online. It focuses on an important
article for the current homosexuality discussion in the Lutheran
church (ELCA): Mark Allen Powell, "The Bible and Homosexuality" in Faithful Conversation:
Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality (ed. James M. Childs Jr.;
Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003), 19-40.
Powell is a professor of New Testament at Trinity
Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, Ohio. The sections of this essay treat
the following issues: I. Does Powell advocate
exceptions to the Bible's prohibition of same-sex intercourse? II. A
critique of Powell's apology for what the church would not be doing in
granting exceptions. III. Interpretive issues: Core values, structural
complementarity, burden of proof.
"Notes to My Essay 'Does the Bible Regard
Same-Sex Intercourse as Intrinsically Sinful?' in Christian
Sexuality: Normative and Pastoral Principles"
(July 2003)
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These notes
are keyed to sections IV-VI in my published article “Does the Bible
Regard Same-Sex Intercourse as Intrinsically Sinful?” in
Christian Sexuality (cited above). For the unabridged version of
the first three sections of the essay see the entry above. The
published print essay uses critically an important essay by Mark
Allen Powell (cited above) as a springboard for discussing: (IV.) the
male-female prerequisite in the Genesis creation stories; (V.) the rest
of the case for regarding same-sex intercourse as intrinsically
sinful; and (VI.) why the sexual orientation argument does not diminish
the biblical witness against same-sex intercourse. The published
print essay provides my best discussion of the implications of the Genesis creation texts for the homosexuality debate today and
orientation theory in antiquity in relation to Paul's views on
homosexual practice.
For a review essay of
Faithful Conversation: Christian Perspectives on Homosexuality
(ed. James M. Childs; Minneapolis: Fortress, 2003) go to:
http://www.robgagnon.net/articles/homoFaithConvReviewRBL.pdf
(pdf version) or
http://www.robgagnon.net/RevFaithfulConv.htm (html version).
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