Queer Prophets The Bible's Surprise Ending to the Story of Sexuality and Gender |
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| Author:
| Paul, Greg |
| ISBN: | 978-1-7252-6656-8 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2020 |
| Publisher: | Wipf & Stock Publishers
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| Imprint: | Wipf and Stock |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
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This is the story of a spiritual journey, a theological quest to find better biblical answers (ones that work in real life) to the challenging questions that plague many of us surrounding gender and sexual identity. If God is love, why does he seemingly reject LGTBQ2+ people? How can Christians truly embrace them without abandoning their biblical convictions? How are queer Christians supposed to live? No story ends where it began. If we follow the story instead of treating the Bible as...
More DescriptionThis is the story of a spiritual journey, a theological quest to find better biblical answers (ones that work in real life) to the challenging questions that plague many of us surrounding gender and sexual identity. If God is love, why does he seemingly reject LGTBQ2+ people? How can Christians truly embrace them without abandoning their biblical convictions? How are queer Christians supposed to live? No story ends where it began. If we follow the story instead of treating the Bible as a document recording a set of precepts, we find that the angst, division, and abuse set in motion by the fall in the garden are reconciled and resolved in the city of the new Jerusalem. And just possibly, we may also find that "queer" people have a prophetic function for our age.