Reconciling Evangelical Christianity with Our Sexual Minorities: Reframing the Biblical Discussion
Most evangelical Christians have understood their faith, rooted in a high view of biblical authority, to be irreconcilable with homosexuality. This has meant that devoted LGBT people raised as evangelical Christians must choose between their sexuality and their faith/religious community. This crea...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2015]
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 35, Issue: 2, Pages: 141-158 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible KBQ North America KDG Free church NBE Anthropology NCF Sexual ethics |
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| Summary: | Most evangelical Christians have understood their faith, rooted in a high view of biblical authority, to be irreconcilable with homosexuality. This has meant that devoted LGBT people raised as evangelical Christians must choose between their sexuality and their faith/religious community. This creates enormous psychic distress, turns LGBT Christians and their allies away from (evangelical) Christianity, and contributes to intense alienation between the gay community and evangelicals all over the world. But traditional evangelical attitudes on LGBT people and their relationships are beginning to change. This paper offers a description of the state of the conversation in the North American evangelical community on this issue, and summarizes my own normative proposal. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/sce.2015.0041 |