Robert Gagnon, the man who wrote the definitive study of biblical teaching on homosexuality, will teach a two-week course at Regent College, Vancouver, this July.

The Bible, Homosexuality and Sexual Ethics

This course will examine the Bible’s views on homosexual practice in the context of a broader discussion of human sexuality. Particular attention will be given to the creation texts, the Sodom narrative and related stories, the Levitical prohibitions, the witness of Jesus on human sexuality, and several key texts in Paul (Rom 1:24-27; 1 Cor 6:9; 1 Tim 1:10) in the broader context of Pauline sexual ethics. The three main arguments for dismissing the biblical witness on homosexual practice will be assessed and critiqued (the exploitation, orientation and misogyny arguments). The course will also deal with philosophic nature arguments, current socio-scientific information and church and public policy issues. Students will be equipped to think through the issue of homosexual practice and to make a reasoned and compassionate case for the importance of a male-female prerequisite for valid sexual unions.

BIBL/THEO 589: July 14-25, 1:15-3:45 pm
2 or 3 graduate credit hours

Dr Gagnon’s The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics (Nashville: Abingdon, 2001) is essential reading for those who wish to investigate and ponder everything the Bible says about homosexual behaviour.  Many of his articles are posted at his website.

Dr Gagnon is Associate Professor of New Testament, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, and an ordained elder in the Presbyterian Church USA.

Check out the rest of Regent’s summer schedule as well.

c/p: Anglican Essentials Canada Blog