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The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics is unavailable, but you can change that!

Gagnon offers the most thorough analysis to date of the biblical texts relating to homosexuality. He demonstrates why attempts to classify the Bible’s rejection of same-sex intercourse as irrelevant for our contemporary context fail to do justice to the biblical texts and to current scientific data. Gagnon’s book powerfully challenges attempts to identify love and inclusivity with affirmation of...

a Judeo-Christian standpoint, it is a truncated vision of reality to accept various forms of sexuality merely because the participants involved give their consent to a given sex act. The first consideration must always be what God wants. God calls us to live holy lives subject to the divine will and not according to our own desires. In my view, the Bible, though not the only witness to God's will and not immune to hermeneutical scrutiny, is the single most important element for discerning that will.