HOMOSEXUAL HERMENEUTICS AND ITS DEADLY IMPLICATIONS: A PASTORAL REFLECTION

23 Letha Scanzoni and Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, Is the Homosexual My Neighbor? (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1978), 55.

24 John Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980), 93.

25 Ibid., 94.

26 H. Kimball Jones, Toward a Christian Understanding of the Homosexual (New York: Association Press, 1966), 67.

27 Derek Kidner, Genesis (TOTC; InterVarsity, 1967), 136-37.

28 Richard Lovelace, Homosexuality: Wliat Should Christians Do About It? (Old Tappan: Revell, 1978), 101.

29 "And don't forget the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring towns, which were filled with sexual immorality and every kind of sexual perversion. Those cities were destroyed by fire and are a warning of the eternal fire that will punish all who are evil" [NLT].

30 "Later, he turned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into heaps of ashes and swept them off the face of the earth. He made them an example of what will happen to ungodly people" [NLT].

31 Ibid., 102.

32 Scanzoni, Is the Homosemal My Neighbor? 60.

33 Ibid., 60-61.

34 Bruce A. Williams, American Protestantism and Homosexuality: Recent Neo-Traditional Approaches (New York: Brace Williams, 1981), 67.

35 Lovelace, Homosexuality, 88.

36 Ibid., 89.

37 Stanton L. Jones, "The Loving Opposition: Speaking the Truth in a Climate of Hate," Christianity Today (July 19, 1993): 24.

38 Gordon J. Wenham, The Book of Leviticus (NICOT; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979), 260.

39 Boswell, Christianity, 109.

40 NASB, NRSV, NIV renders this phrase as "against nature" or "exchanging natural for unnatural."

41 Boswell, Christianity, 111.

42 Ibid., 114.

43 Leon Morris, The Epistle to the Romans (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988), 92-93.

44 James Dunn, Romans 1-8 (WBC; Dallas: Word, 1988), 64.

45 Ibid., 64.

46 H. Koester, "φυsgr;ις," TDNT 9:262-63.

47 Don Williams, The Bond That Breaks: Will Homosexuality Split the Church? (Los Angeles: BIM, 1978), 80.

48 Boswell, Christianity, 106-7.

49 Gordon D. Fee, The First Epistle to the Corinthians (NICNT; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1987), 243.

50 Boswell, Christianity, 107.

51 Fee, First Epistle, 244.

52 Ibid., 244.

53 Richard Hays has written an article refuting John Boswell's exegetical work of Romans 1, among other passages. Richard Hays, "A Response to John Boswell's Exegesis of Romans 1," JRE 14/1 (1986): 184-215.

54 Jones, "Loving Opposition," 20.

55 Gordon D. Fee & Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1982), 13.

56 Gary David Comstock, Cay Theology Without Apology (Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1993), 39.

57 Ibid., 43.

58 Maury Johnston, Gays Under Grace: A Gay Christian's Response to the Moral Majority (Nashville: Winston-Derek, 1983), 40-48.

59 John Shelby Spong, Wliy Christianity Must Cliange or Die (San Francisco: Harper, 1998), 156-58.

60 Ibid., 158-60.

61 Peter J. Gomes, The Good Book (New York: Avon, 1996), 146-47.

62 Johnston, Cays Under Grace: A Gay Christian's Response to the Moral Majority, 52.

63 Carl F. H. Henry, "The Authority of the Bible," in The Origin of the Bible (Wheaton: Tyndale, 1992), 25-26.