Same-sex unions in eschatological perspective
This is not going to be a conventional review of James Brownson’s book on gender and homosexuality in the Bible. I’ll begin with two very broad assertions, then look at the texts, and finish with some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
When Adam names the woman, he does not exert authority over her
I’m trying very hard to like Greg Gilbert’s book Who is Jesus?, really I am, but he is a classic example of someone caught between two paradigms. On the one hand, he wants to take on board new...
View ArticleDid Jesus heal the centurion’s male sexual partner?
I asserted a while back that there is no evidence in the Gospels that Jesus had anything to say, directly or indirectly, about homosexuality. I don’t think he threatened pederasts with drowning, or...
View ArticleCraig Keener and the fallacy of mutual submission
Craig Keener, who certainly knows a thing or two, has written a piece on Jesus Creed reaffirming the common egalitarian argument that Paul prefaces the instructions to husbands and wives in Ephesians...
View ArticleThe subordination of the Son, and why it has nothing to do with gender
There has been a furious flurry of posts (see below) from various directions this week laying into the argument of some neo-Calvinists (Wayne Grudem prominent among them) that the eternal subordination...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Same-sex same old story?
The narrative-historical approach recognises that the biblical story works on different levels. Modern (evangelical) theologies tend to highlight the universal story of the individual person who is a...
View ArticleSame-sex same solution? Does the Jerusalem Council suggest a way forward?
Some years back I wrote a book called Speaking of Women: Interpreting Paul. I took the view that both sides of the debate at the time were misreading Paul in their pursuit of polemical advantage, but I...
View ArticleSame-sex same solution (simplified). And what was James on about?
Ian Paul, who is a staunch defender of the traditional view, thinks that my modest proposal regarding the relevance of the deliberations of the Jerusalem Council for the seemingly intractable...
View ArticleThe inclusion of same-sex believers and the non-inclusion of Gentiles
The purpose of this post is, first, to register the fact that J. Daniel Kirk has used Acts 15 to argue for the affirmation and inclusion of gay Christians in the church. I hadn’t seen these...
View ArticleHomosexuality, marriage, and why I don’t think Paul teaches mutual submission
There’s an interesting exchange between the contributors to Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible and the Church (ed. Preston Sprinkle) over how close the modern ideal of Christian marriage conforms to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Celibacy, marriage, and the end of the age
Something that struck me reading Two Views on Homosexuality, the Bible and the Church was the general agreement that Paul’s views about marriage change between 1 Corinthians 7 and Ephesians 5.In the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What is the case against the case against women’s ordination?
Alastair Roberts is an astute, articulate and assiduous commentator on both scripture and society. I’ve enjoyed reading a lot of what he has written. But I’m disappointed by his defence of the...
View ArticleThe “patriarchy paradox”: why both complementarians and egalitarians may have...
An article in the London Times today reports on what it calls the “patriarchy paradox”, which is that social equality between men and woman appears currently to reinforce rather than weaken gender...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why won’t there be marriage in the resurrection?
What are we to make of Jesus’ saying that in the resurrection people will not marry or be given in marriage? I’ve been looking at Robert Song’s argument for covenant partnerships for gay and lesbian...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What are the differences between man and woman according to the creation...
Here’s a good opportunity to defend a more or less egalitarian reading of Genesis 1-3. An older piece by Alastair Roberts on the differences between men and women in creation has recently been...
View Article
