From

 

Let's Talk


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.


 

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.