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Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church’s Debate on Same-Sex Relationships is unavailable, but you can change that!

This thought-provoking book by James Brownson develops a broad, cross-cultural sexual ethic from Scripture, locates current debates over homosexuality in that wider context, and explores why the Bible speaks the way it does about same-sex relationships. Fairly presenting both sides in this polarized debate—“traditional” and “revisionist”—Brownson conscientiously analyzes pertinent biblical texts...

based) versus constructivism (gender differences are primarily socially constructed) in gender identity. Sorting out what is “biological” and what is “cultural” in the meaning of maleness and femaleness is an enormously complicated task.14 These are difficult questions, and they raise some doubt about whether emphasizing the biological dimension to gender complementarity can be used consistently in a contemporary context. But for our purposes in this study, none of these problems is central. The
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