Thursday, November 12, 2015

Suggested works on Homosexuality and the Bible

This topic is a rather contentious issue, and it doesn’t appear that it will cease to be the case anytime soon. The following are the best works in recent years addressing the topic of the Bible’s attitudes towards homosexuality, using careful exegetical and scholarly research. They are also void of any ill-will towards those with same-sex attraction. However, they come firmly down on the side that yes, the Bible condemns homosexual behaviour in spite of revisionist attempts.

Robert A.J. Gagnon, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics

Michael L. Brown, Can you be Gay and Christian? Responding with Love and Truth to Questions about Homosexuality

Idem. A Queer Thing Happened to America


The best “revisionist” attempt, of course, would be John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century.