Title:
Changing our mind : a call from America's leading evangelical ethics scholar for full acceptance of LGBT Christians in the church
Author:
Gushee, David P., 1962- author.
ISBN:
9781939880932
Personal Author:
Edition:
Second edition / with 2014 Reformation Project speech.
Physical Description:
xxv, 151 pages : portrait ; 23 cm.
General Note:
"February 2015."
"The 17 essays collected in the main body of this book were published in similar form by Baptist News Global (BNG)--formerly ABPnews/Herald--from July to October 2014 ... This second edition contains minor corrections, edits, and updates, with one exception--at the request especially of LGBT Christian leaders, I have included the full text of my speech at the Reformation Project conference in Washington, D.C. in November 2014"--Acknowledgments.
Contents:
Live from New York -- Our moment: a church with a problem -- Starting a conversation -- What exactly is the issue? -- Change we can all support -- Gay Christians exist -- Six options for the churches -- If this is where you get off the bus -- Biblical inspiration, human interpretation -- How traditionalists connect the biblical dots -- The sins of Sodom (and Gibeah) -- Leviticus, abomination and Jesus -- Two odd little words -- God made them male and female -- Creation, sexual orientation and God's will -- Toward covenant -- Transformative encounters and paradigm leaps -- A dual-narrative tour -- How I got here -- Ending the teaching of contempt.
