Robert Gagnon PhD (Princeton), MTS (Harvard Divinity School), BA (Dartmouth) is Associate Professor of New Testament at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics and co-author of Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views.
The Bible, Homosexuality, and Sexual Ethics
Speaker(s): Robert Gagnon
Date: July 14 - 25, 2008
Length: 20:51:37
Product ID: RGDL3830S
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Description
This course examines the Bible's views on homosexual practice in the context of a broader discussion of human sexuality. Particular attention will be given to the creation texts, the Sodom narrative and related stories, the Levitical prohibitions, the witness of Jesus on human sexuality, and several key texts in Paul (Rom 1:24-27; 1 Cor 6:9; 1 Tim 1:10) in the broader context of Pauline sexual ethics. The three main arguments for dismissing the biblical witness on homosexual practice will be assessed and critiqued (the exploitation, orientation and misogyny arguments). The course also deals with philosophic nature arguments, current socio-scientific information and church and public policy issues. Students are equipped to think through the issue of homosexual practice and to make a reasoned and compassionate case for the importance of a male-female prerequisite for valid sexual unions. Lectures include:
- The Old Testament Witness I: Ancient Near Eastern Background; Genesis 1&2
- The Old Testament Witness II:The Sodom Story
- The Old Testament Witness III: Levitical Prohibitions; David and Jonathan
- The New Testament Witness I: Background
- The New Testament Witness II: Jesus
- The New Testament Witness III: Paul 1
- The New Testament Witness IV: Paul 2
- Homosexuality and Analogical Reasoning
- Science
- Change and Public Policy
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