Same-Sex in Scripture

Robert Geis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

190 Seiten

2008
University Press of America (Verlag)
978-0-7618-4318-4 (ISBN)

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Scripture condemns various forms of sexual behavior-but not all. Same-Sex in Scripture identifies in Mt. 19:12 an acknowledgement by Christ of the person born without an impulse towards the opposite sex, and reasons that inasmuch as all creation is good (1 Gen. 31, 1Tim. 4:4) this individual in partnership with someone of the same sex, in following Christ's commands of love, has moral status in the Kingdom of Heaven. Geis argues the insufficiency of Nature as a criterion for sexual behavior given the many exceptions from which the criterion when applied to human sexuality suffers. Only Christ's unexceptioned commandment of love has the binding force salvific law requires. Same-sex behavior can comport with this law, just as heterosexual behavior, as is clear from the role Mt. 5:28 gives the heart in sexuality. It is a position that achieves the middle between the extremes of this contentious debate.

Robert Geis is the author of the published theologico-philosophic study The Christ From Death Arisen (2008), and two published philosophic works on immortality, Personal Existence After Death: Reductionist Circularities and the Evidence (1995) and "Descartes' Res: An Interactionist Difficulty" in the 1997 collection of essays edited by Brendan Sweetman, The Failure of Modernism. His graduate studies in philosophy were through a fellowship at Loyola University. He pursued graduate scripture courses in Hebrew at Mt. St. Mary's University Seminary. He is a prelate protosyncellus in the Eastern Orthodox Catholic rite.

Chapter 1 ONE: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2 TWO: EUNUCH
Chapter 3 THREE: ARSENOKOITAI
Chapter 4 FOUR: ACCORDING TO NATURE
Chapter 5 FIVE: MALE AND FEMALE HE CREATED THEM
Chapter 6 SIX: JONATHAN AND DAVID
Chapter 7 SEVEN: CELIBACY AND PROCREATION
Chapter 8 EIGHT: CHRIST AND SAME-SEX BEHAVIOR
Chapter 9 NINE: THE SIN OF ONAN
Chapter 10 TEN: THE "NATURAL" AND THE COMMAND OF LOVE
Chapter 11 ELEVEN: LOVE IS THE MEASURE

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.12.2008
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 233 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	0-7618-4318-3 / 0761843183
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-4318-4 / 9780761843184
Zustand	Neuware