Synopses & Reviews
Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year Too often, Thomas Schmidt writes, the charged battle over homosexuality generates slogans and accusations--obscuring the struggling persons at the center of the argument. In this book Schmidt brings the discussion back into empathetic contact with the circumstances and the choices of individuals. At the same time he offers thoroughly researched and up-to-date information and assessment from an evangelical Christian perspective on all the main points of the debate. He includes chapters on what the Bible really says (and means) about homosexuality, the health effects of homosexual behavior, whether or not people are born with homosexual orientations, and the cogency of recent progay reconstructions of history such as John Boswell's.
Synopsis
Too often, Thomas Schmidt writes, the charged battle over homosexuality generates slogans and accusations--obscuring the struggling persons at the center of the argument. In this book Schmidt brings the discussion back into empathetic contact with the circumstances and the choices of individuals. At the same time he offers thoroughly researched and up-to-date information and assessment from an evangelical Christian perspective on all the main points of the debate. He includes chapters on what the Bible really says (and means) about homosexuality, the health effects of homosexual behavior, whether or not people are born with homosexual orientations, and the cogency of recent progay reconstructions of history such as John Boswell's.
Synopsis
Can Christians believe that homosexual behavior is wrong without being narrow-minded and homophobic? It's a volatile question these days. Critically acclaimed as "one of the best books on homosexuality and Christianity available", Schmidt's book is both painstakingly documented and sensitively written.
Compassionate but bold, the author defuses one gay-rights argument after another and shows that no matter what one professes to believe about the origins or meanings of homosexuality -- no matter what the circumstances -- the biblical position is irrefutably clear: it is not a part of God's plan for men or women.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-236 and indexes.