This is part 4 in a 5 part series of a response to Carter Heyward’s essay “Notes on Historical Grounding: Beyond Sexual Essentialism,” which can be found in Sexuality and the Sacred:Sources for Theological Reflection, edited by James B. Nelson and Sandra P. Longfellow.
Third, Heyward claims that Christianity is isolating and denies community. By setting [...]
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A New Sexual Ethic? Part 4
Posted in Book Reviews, Christianity, Sexuality, Women's Ministry, tagged 1 Corinthians 10, 1 Corinthians 5, 1 Corthinians 12, 1 Thessalonians 5, Audre Lorde, Carter Heyward, Christianity, community, CS Lewis, Ephesians 2, Ephesians 6, Ethics, Freud, Galatians 6, Gender roles, glory of God, Hebrews 10, homosexuality, John 14, Joy, Leviticus 18, Leviticus 20, Malachi 3, Matthew 18, Philippians 4, Psalms, Quadrilateral of Interpretation, Wesley on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A New Sexual Ethic? Part 3
Posted in Book Reviews, Christianity, Sexuality, Women's Ministry, tagged Carter Heyward, Christianity, Council of Elvira, CS Lewis, Deuteronomy 10, Ethics, Genesis 3, Justin Martyr, Lactantius, Mere Christianity, Samuel Laechuli, Sexuality, St. Augustine on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is part 3 in a 5 part series of a response to Carter Heyward’s essay “Notes on Historical Grounding: Beyond Sexual Essentialim,” which can be found in Sexuality and the Sacred:Sources for Theological Reflection, edited by James B. Nelson and Sandra P. Longfellow. Part One and Part Two are here.
The second premise of Heyward’s [...]
A New Sexual Ethic? Part 2
Posted in Book Reviews, Christianity, Sexuality, Women's Ministry, tagged Apostle Paul, Carter Heyward, Christianity, Ethics, Galatians 3, Genesis 3, Sexuality on April 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This is part 2 in a 5 part series of a response to Carter Heyward’s essay “Notes on Historical Grounding: Beyond Sexual Essentialism,” which can be found in Sexuality and the Sacred:Sources for Theological Reflection, edited by James B. Nelson and Sandra P. Longfellow. Part One can be found here.
First, Heyward correctly points out that [...]
A New Sexual Ethic? Part 1
Posted in Book Reviews, Christianity, Sexuality, Women's Ministry, tagged Carter Heyward, Christianity, CS Lewis, Daniel Heimbach, Ethics, Feminisim, human sexuality, James Nelson, liberal theology, Sandra Longfellow on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This is the first in a series of five posts responding to Carter Heyward’s essay, “Notes on Historical Grounding: Beyond Sexual Essentialism.”
The work Sexuality and the Sacred: Sources for Theological Reflection, edited by James Nelson and Sandra Longfellow was collected and published as “a revision of much Christian understanding of sexuality…” (Nelson and Longfellow, xiii). [...]
Window Shutters and Keeping up Appearances
Posted in Christianity, tagged Christianity, Church, Matthew 7 on March 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was sitting in my car yesterday with one of the girls from my Sunday school class. We had gone to lunch and were now waiting for her mom to get home because she had forgotten her key and couldn’t get in the house. As we were waiting, she started telling me about her neighbors. [...]