We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
THE JERUSALEM DECREE, PAUL, AND THE GENTILE ANALOGY TO HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS.
- Authors
Olson, Jon C.
- Abstract
Revisionists and traditionalists appeal to Acts 15, welcoming the Gentiles, for analogies directing the church's response to homosexual persons. John Perry has analyzed the major positions. He faults revisionists for inadequate attention to the Jerusalem Decree and faults one traditionalist for using the Decree literally rather than through analogy. I argue that analogical use of the Decree must supplement rather than displace the plain sense. The Decree has been neglected due to assumptions that Paul opposed it, that it expired, or because Gentiles wanted non-kosher meat. I argue that Paul continued to observe the Torah and supported the Decree, that it has not expired, and that Gentile desire for non-kosher meat is not a firm obstacle. Affirming the plain sense of the Decree, I develop the analogy from Acts 15 to homosexual persons.
- Subjects
CHRISTIANITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; RELIGION; MILK &; meat (Jewish law); PAUL, the Apostle, Saint; REVISIONISM (Christian theology); TRADITION (Theology); BIBLE. Acts
- Publication
Journal of Religious Ethics, 2012, Vol 40, Issue 2, p360
- ISSN
0384-9694
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9795.2012.00526.x