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Trajectories of Justice: What the Bible Says about Slaves, Women, and Homosexuality

Trajectories of Justice: What the Bible Says about Slaves, Women, and Homosexuality

Gnuse, Robert Karl

Paperback

Religion General Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0718894308
ISBN13: 9780718894306
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: Aug 25 2016
Pages: 202
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.99 Depth: 8.91
Language: English
A re-examination of the Bible that reveals a message of liberation and dignity for the marginalised and oppressed.

The Bible proclaims a message of liberation. Though the Bible arose in an age when slavery and patriarchalism permeated society, the biblical authors sought to elevate the rights of slaves, the poor, and women. Their attempts to elevate the oppressed set in motion a trajectory of evolution, which we should still be advancing today. Critics of the Bible declare that it accepts slavery and the subordination of women, but they fail to understand the biblical texts in their historical context. For their age the biblical authors were advanced in their understanding of human rights, and the democratic values we hold today actually resulted from their early attempts to affirm the dignity and rights of slaves and women. It is equally important that we critique those spokespersons of the church who quote the Bible literally but have lost sight of its historical context so that they might still subordinate women today. Such spokespersons also declare that the Bible condemns homosexuality. But a closer reading of the text discerns that those few passages that address same-sex relations actually condemn rape, ritual prostitution, and master-slave relations. To use the Bible to condemn people is to misuse the Bible.

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