The Fourth Wall

The last three posts, William Webb’s analysis of hermeneutical trajectories, Rowan Williams’s exposition of human sexuality, and Eugune Rogers’s exploration of biblical imaging, I have categorized under hermeneutics. While Webb’s book offers some explanation of the mechanics of hermeneutics, none of what I have written actually makes a hermeneutical argument using their texts. I have…

Eugene Rogers is a professor of religion at UNC Greensboro.  His contributions to this study are many, but most notable among them is his book Sexuality and the Christian Body: Their Way into the Triune God.  In this post I want to interact with his much briefer article “Same-Sex Complimentarity: A theology of marriage,” which…

To read the article that this post is summarizing with click here.  A friend told me that it has been said that these ten (or so) pages by Rowan Williams are the best ever written on sexuality.  That’s a helpful starting place.  William’s article is not explicitly about same-sex relationships.  It’s about sexuality.  For this…

Slaves, Women, & Homosexuals At the conclusion of my last I raised the hermeneutical question.  I’ll state it again here.  Is there interpretive reading strategy that takes into account the cultural context in which Paul and others are writing that allows us to supersede the univocal voice of Biblical writers?  The most obvious examples that…

For all four of these posts on biblical texts, which are attempts at exegetical dialogue, I will be pairing Peter Gomes and Richard Hays as conversation partners.  Gomes, now deceased, was an American preacher and theologian, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School as well as the University’s chaplain. Richard Hays was…

For all four of these posts on biblical texts, which are attempts at exegetical dialogue, I will be pairing Peter Gomes and Richard Hays as conversation partners.  Gomes, now deceased, was an American preacher and theologian, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School as well as the University’s chaplain. Richard Hays was…

For all four of these posts on biblical texts, which are attempts at exegetical dialogue, I will be pairing Peter Gomes and Richard Hays as conversation partners.  Gomes, now deceased, was an American preacher and theologian, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School as well as the University’s chaplain. Richard Hays was…

For all four of these posts on biblical texts, which are attempts at exegetical dialogue, I will be pairing Peter Gomes and Richard Hays as conversation partners.  Gomes, now deceased, was an American preacher and theologian, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard Divinity School as well as the University’s chaplain. Richard Hays was…

As I have pondered the best way to frame this conversation, I think it’s prudent to explore how one might read the bible since it’s usually at the heart of the argument of those who oppose same-sex relationships.  How does one read their Bible?  As with any issue there seems to be a range of…

I got married 19 years ago today. In what follows I tell you about the hardest year of my life. Kind of. Nadia Bolz-Webber advises one to speak from your wounds, but not while they’re still bleeding. My psychiatrist tells me I’m still healing, so I’ll offer you a truncated version of my reality even…