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Title: The Church and Homosexuality: Searching for a Middle Ground by Merton P. Strommen, Thomas J. Kiresuk ISBN: 1-886513-17-1 Publisher: Kirk House Pub Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Introduction to Traditional Side
Comment: While not without its faults, this is probably the best introduction to the traditional side of the argument about homosexual behavior within the Christian church. It's relatively easy to read. Especially notable is Strommen's charitable and irenic tone -- he avoids invective and most polemics. Those interested in serious Biblical study will go to Robert Gagnon, "The Bible and Homosexual Practice," also with a traditional orientation. I notice that other reviewer's ratings tend to be determined by where they stand on the homosexuality issue and not by the quality of the book. Perhaps my own rating is also affected!
Rating: 1
Summary: Search failure
Comment: Merton Strommen presents no new ground at all. What he claims he finds is nothing new, but a variation of the old ground of "hate the sin, love the sinner" routine. This is really an old work and contributes little but a rehash of an outdated understanding of sexuality. I frankly wonder what motivated him to write this book at all.
Rating: 5
Summary: TRUTH
Comment: It's about time! Strommen has finally put some "rubber to the road" with this book. Christ's bride, the Church, has been listening far too long to the Gay propaganda machine crank out its "we were born this way...deal with it" scenario. Human societies, since day one, generally don't like to hear the truth, epecially when it just might affect the way we behave.
Strommen is rightfully concerned about the Church's future. Reaching out to the Gay Community with the love and hope of the Gospel is paramount. The Church needs to be offering both the love and the hope of Christ to broken humanity in its ENTIRETY. This is beyond the cliche of "love the sinner, hate the sin." This is about "hope." Hope, for every person caught up in any situation in which they lose control of themselves. This is about hope, for those who really WANT freedom in and through Christ.
Strommen offers no "majic pill" to make truth more pallatable for the Church. He does, however, offer a very real and honest perspective on the issue of homosexuality from much scientific research that disputes many of the things we have been told were true. The Church, and any concerned individual, needs to look carefully at this perspective and seriously consider not only the possibility, but the high probability, that there is strong merit in knowing more of the truth.
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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: 0830815678 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Homosexuality and Christian Faith: Questions of Conscience for the Churches by Walter Wink ISBN: 0800631862 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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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 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: 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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