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The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics
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Dr. Robert Gagnon, the leading expert in biblical sexual ethics, will serve as a visiting scholar starting in the Plummet Semester of , teaching courses through Wesley Biblical Seminary along with other activities.
Gagnon is known the world over for being the foremost expert in the Bible’s view of homosexual rehearse, having risked his career to defend the historic scriptural view in a mainline denominational context while others kept silent. His publication, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Text and Hermeneutics, is considered the definitive work on the topic, along with his over 23 scholarly articles and presentations, and he continues to be a key voice in the contemporary debates on human sexuality. He is currently working to complete Speaking the Truth in Love, a book that will both update and popularize his research on homosexuality and transgenderism in the Bible. Dr. Gagnon is also working on a book about the most important passages in the Bible.
Dr. Gagnon has degrees from Dartmouth College (B.A.), Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S.), and Princeton Theologica
Is Homosexual Practice No Worse Than Any Other Sin?
by Robert A. J. Gagnon, Ph.D.
Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, gagnon@
January 7,
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In my operate on the Bible and homosexual perform I often encounter the argument that (1) no sin is any worse than any other sin; therefore (2) homosexual practice is no worse than any other sin.* Usually the comparison is then made with sins for which accommodations are often made by Christians (like gluttony or remarriage after divorce), rather than with sins for which no accommodation is made (like incest or murder), as a way of either shutting up Christian opposition to homosexual perform altogether or contending that self-affirming participants in homosexual rehearse will still “go to heaven.” Even many evangelicals who neither support homosexual practice nor extend a pass from God’s judgment to those who persist unrepentantly in it subscribe to these two views.
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Gagnon offers the most thorough analysis to date of the biblical texts relating to homosexuality. He demonstrates why attempts to classify the Bible’s rejection of same-sex intercourse as irrelevant for our contemporary context fail to carry out justice to the biblical texts and to current scientific data. Gagnon’s guide powerfully challenges attempts to identify care and inclusivity with affirmation of homosexual practice.
. . . the most urbane and convincing examination of the biblical data for our time. —Jürgen Becker, Professor of Brand-new Testament, Christian-Albrechts University
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Robert A. J. Gagnon
Robert A. J. Gagnon is Associate Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He co-edits Horizons in Biblical Theology, and has published in the Journal of Biblical Literature, Novum Testamentum, and Catholic Biblical Quarterly.