Living Theology in the Metropolitan Chicago Synod
Volume 8, Number 1
Pentecost 2003
Human Sexuality in the ELCA
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR WORKS ON
SEXUALITY AND THE CHURCH
Compiled by
The Rev. Dr. 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.
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.