Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships

Abstract

Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword, by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson -- I. Why Another Book on Same-Sex Relationships? -- 1. Introduction and Overview -- The Necessity of Interpretation -- Imagination and Biblical Interpretation -- The Methodology of This Book -- Summing Up -- 2. The Traditionalist Case and Its Problems -- Analyzing "Gender Complementarity" -- Biological Understandings of Gender Complementarity -- Critiquing Biological Understandings of Gender Complementarity -- Conclusions -- Summing Up -- 3. Revisionist Readings -- Understanding Revisionist Positions -- Difficulties in Revisionist Positions -- Justice, Love, and Sexual Ethics -- A New Chapter in the Debate over Same-Sex Relationships -- Summing Up -- II. Recovering a Broad, Cross-Cultural Vision for the Center of Christian Sexual Ethics -- 4. Patriarchy -- Patriarchy and Egalitarianism: Contrasting Streams in the Creation Narratives -- Contrasting Streams in the Old Testament -- Contrasting Streams in the New Testament -- Resolving the Tensions -- The Place of Galatians 3:27-28 -- Revisiting the New Testament Patriarchal Texts -- 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 -- 1 Corinthians 7:3-5 -- 1 Corinthians 14:33b-35 -- 1 Timothy 2:8-15 -- The "Household Codes" -- Implications for "Gender Complementarity" -- Implications for the Homosexuality Debate -- Summing Up -- 5. One Flesh -- "One Flesh" in Genesis 2:18-25 -- "One Flesh" and Jesus' Teaching on Divorce -- "One Flesh" in Ephesians 5:21-33 -- Sex and One Flesh: 1 Corinthians 6:12-20 -- Implications for the Debate over Gay and Lesbian Relationships -- Summing Up -- 6. Procreation -- The Procreation/Marriage Link -- Is Procreation the Essence of Marriage? -- Implications for the Debate over Gay and Lesbian Relationships and Marriage -- Procreation and Gender Complementarity -- The Social Argument -- Summing Up -- 7. Celibacy