Church in Crisis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781556358975)

What if the challenge gay men and women present the church with is not emancipatory but hermeneutic? Suppose that at the heart of the problem there is the magna quaestio, the question about the gay experience, its sources and its character, that gays must answer for themselves: how this form of sensibility and feeling is shaped by its social context and how it can be clothed in an appropriate pattern of life for the service of God and discipleship of Christ? But suppose, too, that there is another question corresponding to it, which non-gay Christians need to answer: how and to what extent this form of sensibility and feeling has emerged in specific historical conditions, and how the conditions may require, as an aspect of the pastoral accommodation that changing historical conditions require, a form of public presence and acknowledgment not hitherto known? These two questions come together as a single question: how are we to understand together the particularity of the age in which we are given to attest God's works?

Author: Oliver O'Donovan
ISBN-10: 1556358970
ISBN-13: 9781556358975
Publisher: Cascade Books
Language: English
Published: 07/03/2008
Pages: 134
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.40d