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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...

Paul here contrasts the triumphalism of the Corinthians with the suffering example of the apostles. Christian faith is not about transcending and escaping the troubles of this world, but about the sacrificial offering of lives to one another in hope and love. It is the “not yet” side of the “already/not yet” tension—the embrace of suffering and sacrificial love—that the Corinthians are missing. They need to remember that the resurrection still lies before them (see 1 Cor. 15:12–23).14 So how does
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