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Marriage, Scripture, and the Church: Theological Discernment on the Question of Same-Sex Union is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book takes a distinctive approach to the same-sex-union debate by framing the issue as a matter of marriage. Darrin Snyder Belousek demonstrates that the interpretation of Scripture affects whether the church should revise its doctrine of marriage for the sake of sanctioning same-sex union. Engaging charitably yet critically with opposing viewpoints, he delves deeply into what marriage is,...

on the essence and nature of marriage.”6 Jesus’s teaching here is primarily about marriage and secondarily about divorce—it is thus potentially relevant to any question of marriage. Whether to sanction same-sex union also, first and fundamentally, is a question of marriage. For this reason, this text about divorce cannot be set aside, due to supposed irrelevance, from our debate about same-sex union: divorce and same-sex union both are marriage matters. Second, Jesus’s response to this question exhibits
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