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In summarizing with admirable thoroughness the predominant evangelical Christian view of homosexuality, Schmidt eschews theology in favor of the more empirical disciplines of textual Bible studies (his own field), the social sciences, medicine, and developmental psychology. Starting from the bedrock evangelical assumption that the Bible is the ultimate authority for Christians, Schmidt first forcibly states revisionist Christian ideas about why the church should accept homosexual behavior. Then he demonstrates that revisionists misrepresent the Bible's disapprobation of homosexual acts, marshals the evidence for the physical and psychological unhealthiness of typical homosexual behavior, and critically reviews "the Great Nature-Nurture Debate" over the "cause" of homosexuality. Despite an openly didactic manner (he tells us what he's going to do, then does it in apple-pie order), Schmidt states his case with exemplary clarity, conviction, and genuine goodwill. (The only major point he fails to put persuasively is that homosexual acts are per se injurious to marriage.) It seems unlikely that his book will ever be bettered; those who want the gospel, as it were, on evangelical Christianity and homosexuality must read it. Ray Olson
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Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year!Too often, Thomas Schmidt writes, the charged battle over homosexuality generates slogans and accusations--obscuring the struggling persons at the center of the argument.In this book Schmidt brings the discussion back into empathetic contact with the circumstances and the choices of individuals. At the same time he offers thoroughly researched and up-to-date information and assessment from an evangelical Christian perspective on all the main points of the debate. He includes chapters on what the Bible really says (and means) about homosexuality, the health effects of homosexual behavior, whether or not people are born with homosexual orientations, and the cogency of recent progay reconstructions of history such as John Boswell's.
In summarizing with admirable thoroughness the predominant evangelical Christian view of homosexuality, Schmidt eschews theology in favor of the more empirical disciplines of textual Bible studies (his own field), the social sciences, medicine, and developmental psychology. Starting from the bedrock evangelical assumption that the Bible is the ultimate authority for Christians, Schmidt first forcibly states revisionist Christian ideas about why the church should accept homosexual behavior. Then he demonstrates that revisionists misrepresent the Bible's disapprobation of homosexual acts, marshals the evidence for the physical and psychological unhealthiness of typical homosexual behavior, and critically reviews "the Great Nature-Nurture Debate" over the "cause" of homosexuality. Despite an openly didactic manner (he tells us what he's going to do, then does it in apple-pie order), Schmidt states his case with exemplary clarity, conviction, and genuine goodwill. (The only major point he fails to put persuasively is that homosexual acts are per se injurious to marriage.) It seems unlikely that his book will ever be bettered; those who want the gospel, as it were, on evangelical Christianity and homosexuality must read it. Ray Olson
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Voted one of Christianity Today's 1996 Books of the Year!Too often, Thomas Schmidt writes, the charged battle over homosexuality generates slogans and accusations--obscuring the struggling persons at the center of the argument.In this book Schmidt brings the discussion back into empathetic contact with the circumstances and the choices of individuals. At the same time he offers thoroughly researched and up-to-date information and assessment from an evangelical Christian perspective on all the main points of the debate. He includes chapters on what the Bible really says (and means) about homosexuality, the health effects of homosexual behavior, whether or not people are born with homosexual orientations, and the cogency of recent progay reconstructions of history such as John Boswell's.
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