Breaking down the dividing wall: ending the silence about sexuality - Homosexuality: Some Elements for an Ecumenical Discussion

Ecumenical Review, The, Jan, 1998 by Melanie A. May

(12) Leonardo Boff, Church: Charism and Power -- Liberation Theology and the Institutional Church, York, Crossroad, 1985, p.92.

(13) Uniting in Hope, Accra, 1974: Reports and Documents from the Meeting of the Faith and Order Commission, Geneva, WCC, 1975, p.94.

(14) Mary Tanner, "Unity and Renewal: the Church and the Human Community". The Ecumenical Review, vol. 36, no. 3, July 1984, p.256.

(15) See, for example, "The Reception of BEM and Structures of Decision-making". in Faith and Renewal: Reports and Documents of the Commission on Faith and Order, Stavanger, 1985, Geneva, WCC, 1986, pp.99ff.

(16) Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Present: Six Exercises in Political Thought, Cleveland and New York, World, 1966, p.121.

(17) Ibid., pp. 122-24.

(18) Carter Heyward, Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God, San Franciso, Harper & Row, 1989, p.77.

(19) Arendt, op. cit., p.26.

(20) Jamake Highwater, The Mythology of Transgression: Homosexuality as Metaphor, New York, Oxford UP, 1997, p. 109.

(21) Loc. cit.

(22) Letty M. Russell, Household of Freedom: Authority in Feminist Theology Philadelphia, Westminster, 1987, p.92.

(*) Melanie A. May is professor of theology and dean for women and gender studies. Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, New York (USA).