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By Robert A. J. Gagnon. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2001. 520 pp. $49.00 (cloth); $39.00 (paper).
Robert Gagnon offers a detailed argument, framed in terms of critical biblical scholarship, that Christian faith is incompatible with "homosexual practice." It is a maximalist argument. He seeks, for example, to reclaim the Sodom story for his purpose after most scholars on all sides of the question have set it aside. He even argues at length that Jesus' silence on the subject confirms his position.
The main thread of argument is the author's reliance on a theology of creation that appears to have originated in the last century as a kind of Protestant counterpart to Roman Catholic natural law theory. Genesis 1 and 2 are...