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A Time to Embrace: Same-Gender Relationships in Religion, Law, and Politics
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As rhetoric continues to heat up on both sides of the debate over same-gender unions, clear, reasoned statements are in short supply. Watching this debate unfold, William Stacy Johnson found that he could be silent no longer. In "A Time to Embrace" he presents his contribution -- a comprehensive case for acknowledging the legitimacy of same-gender unions in law, politics, and especially religion. Johnson begins by laying out the Church's seven different responses, from outright prohibition to full ecclesial consecration, testing the arguments of each along the way. He then focuses on gay rights in recent court battles, detailing the arguments made from both liberty and equality. Finally, Johnson weighs different types of gay marriage and civil union arrangements and suggests a way forward politically through the hopeful process of "deliberative" democracy. "A Time to Embrace" is a thought-provoking and well-argued treatment of one of the most controversial issues in the west today and is sure to lead readers to deeper reflection on religious truth and the meaning of marriage.
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Pages 330
Dimensions: Length: 9.22" Width: 6.32" Height: 1.17"
Weight: 1.37 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Release Date Aug 1, 2006
Publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 080282966X
EAN 9780802829665
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 | Rationale for Inclusion Mar 9, 2008 |
Johnson offers a religious and political rationale for inclusion of gays and lesbians in the common life of society.
His key scriptural texts are Genesis 2:18, on the need for a "suitable partner" in human life, and Galatians 3:28, on how one's spiritual identity supercedes the psycho-physical experience of gender. He argues for religious consecration of same-sex unions.
In the political arena, he highlights democratic values where the majority doesn't impose its will on a vulnerable minority, and he regards marriage as a right that should be open to gays and lesbians.
Useful especially were his discussion of the spectrum of attitudes toward same-sex relations early in the book, as well as his coverage of deliberative democracy in the latter part. | | |  | A Time to Embrace Feb 18, 2008 |
| While I have read other books making a case for Gay/Lesbian marriage, this was the first that really convinced me. Facing head on many if not all of the Scriptural passages used by opponents of homosexuality to condemn it, the author helps the reader see these passages in a new light amd argues from the whole thrust of the Bible that it should be acceptable and even blessed. He then goes on to point out the severe legal penalties same sex couples face when denied the right to marry and argues for allowing it. | | |  | A Time To Embrace Nov 21, 2007 |
| This is the most scholarly and well researched book on the topic of same gender relationships that I have ever read. | | | | Thoughtful, closely reasoned, Biblically supported exploration Aug 28, 2007 |
Stacy Johnson is a good man and a deep thinker; the church is indebted to him for this book. He avoids polemic on either side of his discussion of the issues of homosexuality in the church.
Stacy's first career was as an attorney, and his closely reasoned examination of the biblical imperatives surrounding these issues speaks to his capacitiy for logical and disciplined research and reasoning.
This book is a gift to all of us who would rather focus on what unites us in the church (Christ's sacrifice for us, the Biblical mandate to feed the hungry, comfort the grieving, bind up wounds and work for justice) than what divides us.
I puzzle over all those who think that this is the one, central issue on which our salvation hinges. Perhaps Stacy's voice can be one that helps the church move beyond these issues to the central call of the Gospel: To Love God with all that we are, and our neighbors as ourselves.
In the grace of God may it be so. | | | | THE best book yet on homosexuality Jul 3, 2007 |
From my vantage point, as a Ph.D. in Church History and on the farthest heterosexual side of Kinsey's spectrum, I regard Johnson's book as far and away the best book yet on the subject. As the sub-title says, he deals with homosexuality from the sides of religion, law, and politics--as a respected theologian on a top-notch theological seminary faculty and also with a degree in law.
He rightly gives most space to the opening section of religion, since here is, and always has been, where the most controversy has been. Respected biblical scholars have always said we must deal with puzzling passages in the context of the rest of the Bible--and yet, with that approach--have wound up on opposite conclusions. Where Johnson outshines all others is that he also studies the much-used biblical texts in the wider context of the cultural surroundings of the biblical authors--their Sitz im Leben. This is especially where he differs so critically from the widely-read work of Gagnon--and accordingly comes out on the opposite side.
The book's succeeding sections on law and politics are equally thoroughly handled, though at less length.
Granted, I had already moved, slowly through decades of study, to come out on Johnson's side of affirmation--although as a very hetero youth I hated the very thought of homosexuality, since I had been molested by a homosexual teacher. But as a church historian I have written a short treatise surveying twelve highly controversial issues through twenty centuries of church history in which the Christian church has changed its mind, showing that the trajectory indicates that homosexuality is the thirteenth big issue on which the Church is now in process of changing its mind. The wheels of church history change slowly--but they do change!
Johnson's book should add to and hasten this sorely-needed change.
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