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Bibliography of Major Works on Sexuality and the Church

June 8, 2016 by Frank C. Senn

Analyses Supporting Union Blessings and Ordination Issue

Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Brooten, Bernadette J.  Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Countryman, William L.  Dirt, Greed, and Sex: Sexual Ethics in the New Testament and Their Implications for Today. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1988.

Goss, Robert. “A Queer Biblical Hermeneutics,” in Jesus Acted Up. A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco, 1993, 87-111.

Johnson, Luke Timothy. “Fellowship: Homosexuality in the Church,” in Scripture and Discernment: Decision Making in the Church. Nashville: Abingdon, Revised Edition 1996.
McNeill, John J. “Scripture and Homosexuality,” in The Church and the Homosexual. Boston: Beacon, 1976.

Scroggs, Robin. The New Testament and Homosexuality: Contextual Background for Contemporary Debate. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1983.

Siker, Jeffrey S.  “Gentile Wheat and Homosexual Christians: New Testament Directions for the Heterosexual Church,” in Biblical Ethics and Homosexuality: Listening to Scripture, ed. Robert L. Brawley. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1996, 137-152.

Analyses Questioning Union Blessings and Ordination Issue

DeYoung, James B. Homosexuality: Contemporary Claims Examined in Light of the Bible and Other Ancient Literature and Law. Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 2000.

Foerde, Gerhard O., “The Normative Character of Scripture for Matters of Faith and Life: Human Sexuality in Light of Romans 1:16-32,” Word and World 14 (1994), 305-314.

Gagnon, Robert A. J. The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics. Nashville: Abingdon, 2001.

Webb, William J., Slaves, Women, and Homosexuals. Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis (Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press, 2001).

Neutral

Furnish, Victor Paul. “The Bible and Homosexuality: Reading the Texts in Context,” in Homosexuality in the Church: Both Sides of the Debate, ed. Jeffrey S. Siker.  Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1994, 18-34.

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About Frank C. Senn

Frank C. Senn is a retired ELCA pastor and an adjunct professor of liturgy at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston. His most recent books are Embodied Liturgy: Lessons in Christian Ritual (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2016) and Eucharistic Body (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2017).

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