How Charity Transcends the Culture Wars: Eugene Rogers and Others on Same-Sex Marriage
In 1994 the “Ramsey Colloquium,” under the leadership of Richard John Neuhaus, posed a challenge to what it called the “homosexual movement” within the Christian Church. The challenge was to prove that it had reasons distinguishable from secular liberalism—reasons consistent with orthodox Christian...
| Published in: | Journal of religious ethics |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2003
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2003, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 169-180 |
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Homosexuality
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| Summary: | In 1994 the “Ramsey Colloquium,” under the leadership of Richard John Neuhaus, posed a challenge to what it called the “homosexual movement” within the Christian Church. The challenge was to prove that it had reasons distinguishable from secular liberalism—reasons consistent with orthodox Christian theology—in favor of same-sex coupling. Eugene Rogers's book, Sexuality and the Christian Body: Their Way into the Triune God, can be read as a response to this challenge. The book is important not only for the content of its arguments, which are imaginative and theologically rigorous, but also for the exemplary way in which Rogers exhibits charity in his account of his conservative opponents. Rogers's recent anthology, Theology and Sexuality, provides additional evidence that a new, more promising debate is arising within the Church, a debate that has some hope of transcending the rhetoric of the culture wars. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/1467-9795.00133 |