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Title: Homosexuality: The Use of Scientific Research in the Church's Moral Debate by Stanton L. Jones, Mark A. Yarhouse ISBN: 0-8308-1567-8 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful and Timely
Comment: This book is a must read for all psychiatry shcools
Rating: 5
Summary: A well-written, balanced book
Comment: This book deserves to rank higher on Amazon.com's sales list. It seems very difficult to find a book that deals with this subject fairly, since this subject is so politically charged. But this book does a very good job of laying out the most current scientific research. People who should read it may not because they may assume that it's coming from a traditional religious perspective. Ultimately, it is. But the authors lay the scientific research out fairly and draw rational conclusions from it. It's hard to see how anybody could be offended by this book, no matter what side of the fence they happen to be on.Much of the material overlaps with Thomas Schmidt's "Straight and Narrow" (published five years earlier by the same publisher, Intervarsity Press). But Schmidt's book was more overtly critical of homosexuality, whereas this book is somewhat less personal and more clinical. The authors seem to take some pains not to offend. But the book does show (as Schmidt does) that the media coverage of this subject tends to really oversimplify (and, to a degree, whitewash) a very complex subject.
Rating: 3
Summary: Thorough discussion of homosexuality, flawed theology
Comment: Jones and Yarhouse's comprehensive discussion of the science of homosexuality is welcome and long overdue. In particular, the authors touch upon a subject -- ex-gays -- that both liberal and conservative activists have avoided addressing scientifically because the facts reflect poorly on the claims of both sides.
This book makes no claim to be unbiased. The authors do impose a conservative Protestant filter upon their evaluations and commentaries. This results in extensive discussion of "the" (singular) Christian sexual ethic which completely excludes Catholic and liberal or independent Protestant perspectives on sexual ethics. The authors also succumb to caricatures of positions with which they disagree; they periodically stereotype the proponents of alternative ethical frameworks as well as the widely differing perspectives of gay-tolerant Christian and gay-tolerant non-Christian scientists, clergy and civil-rights activists.
Overall the book is a useful addition to the discussion of the science of sexuality within a conservative Protestant framework.
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Title: The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics by Robert A. J. Gagnon ISBN: 0687022797 Publisher: Abingdon Press Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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Title: Welcoming but Not Affirming: An Evangelical Response to Homosexuality by Stanley J. Grenz ISBN: 0664257763 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views by Robert A. J. Gagnon, Dan O. Via ISBN: 080063618X Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Straight & Narrow?: Compassion & Clarity in the Homosexuality Debate by Thomas E. Schmidt ISBN: 0830818588 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: June, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Homosexuality and the Politics of Truth by Jeffrey Satinover ISBN: 080105625X Publisher: Baker Book House Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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