Sexuality in the New Testament: Understanding the Key Texts

By William R.G. Loader

Groups of religion frequently flip to texts written millennia in the past to discover their questions about sexuality. This booklet introduces readers to the main passages that has to be tested while attempting to comprehend what the hot testomony says approximately sexual ethics.

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Fifty two Gagnon, in Homosexuality and the Bible, eighty; Gagnon, ‘Notes’, n. ninety three; Brooten, Love among girls, 361. fifty three Jewett, Romans, 180–1; solely: Hanks, ‘Romans’, 587. fifty four Gagnon, in Homosexuality and the Bible, 79–80. fifty five Gagnon, in Homosexuality and the Bible, seventy eight; Gagnon, Bible and gay perform, 254–7. fifty six Gagnon, ‘Notes’, n. 88, mentioning Craig A. Williams, Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity (New York: Oxford collage Press, 1999), 242. fifty seven through, in Homosexuality and the Bible, 95–6. fifty eight Du Toit, ‘Homosexuality’, a hundred. fifty nine Helminiak, Homosexuality, 85–6. 60 Schoedel, ‘Same-Sex Eros’, fifty nine, sixty three. sixty one So Brooten, Love among girls, 252. sixty two So Gagnon, Bible and gay perform, 236. sixty three Brooten, Love among girls, 238, 241. sixty four So Gwendolyn B. Sayler, ‘Beyond the Biblical deadlock: Homosexuality throughout the Lens of Theological Anthropology’, conversation forty four (2005), 81–9, 85–6; Swancutt, ‘Effemination’, 194–9; Martin, ‘Heterosexism’, fifty nine. sixty five See Marilyn B. Skinner, Sexuality in Greek and Roman tradition (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 212–13; additionally Jewett, Romans, 176. sixty six in this see Schoedel, ‘Homosexuality’, 50, fifty four, fifty six. sixty seven So Brooten, Love among ladies, 216. sixty eight Plato, legislation 836C; Pseudo-Phocylides 191. sixty nine Martin, ‘Heterosexism’, fifty four, fifty six; Boswell, Homosexuality, 111–14. 70 Martin, ‘Heterosexism’, 57–9. seventy one So du Toit, ‘Homosexuality’, 99–100. seventy two Martin, ‘Heterosexism’, fifty nine; cf. J. Edward Ellis, Paul and historical perspectives of Sexual wish: Paul’s Sexual Ethics in 1 Thessalonians four, 1 Corinthians 7 and Romans 1 (LNTS 354; London: T&T Clark, 2007), 168–9. seventy three David E. Fredrickson, ‘Natural and Unnatural Use in Romans 1:24–27: Paul and the Philosophic Critique of Eros’, in Homosexuality, technological know-how, and the ‘Plain feel’ of Scripture (ed. David L. Balch; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000), 197–222, 205–206. seventy four Fredrickson, ‘Natural and Unnatural Use’, 217. seventy five Fredrickson, ‘Natural and Unnatural Use’, 211. seventy six Fredrickson, ‘Natural and Unnatural Use’, 208; see additionally David E. Fredrickson, ‘A pleasant, Hellenic reaction to Professor Sayler’, conversation forty four (2005), 93–4. seventy seven Jewett, Romans, 168. seventy eight Gagnon, Bible and gay perform, 178. seventy nine Nolland, ‘Romans 1:26–27’, fifty four; Brooten, Love among ladies, 275, 280; cf. Nissinen, Homoeroticism, 107. eighty Richard B. Hays, the ethical imaginative and prescient of the hot testomony: a modern advent to New testomony Ethics (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1996), 387; Gagnon, ‘Notes’, eighty two; Gagnon, Bible and gay perform, 356–7; Brooten, Love among ladies, 269–75, 280. eighty one So Nolland, ‘Romans 1:26–27’, forty nine; Gagnon, in Homosexuality and the Bible, seventy eight; Gagnon, Bible and gay perform, 236, 290–1; Brooten, Love among girls, 256. eighty two Du Toit, ‘Homosexuality’, a hundred and one; Hays, ethical imaginative and prescient, 386, 396; Brooten, Love among ladies, 275. eighty three Gagnon, in Homosexuality and the Bible, seventy eight. eighty four Schoedel, ‘Homosexuality’, fifty seven. eighty five Martin, ‘Heterosexism’, fifty two; equally Nissinen, Homoeroticism, 107; cf. Hays, ethical imaginative and prescient, 384, 385, 388. 86 Gagnon, ‘Notes’, n. 136; Gagnon, Bible and gay perform, 254–6 n.

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