Contents
To Continue the
Dialogue
Foreword
by Richard A. Kauffman 7
Series
Editor’s Preface by Michael A. King 12
Editor’s
Preface 13
Introduction by C. Norman Kraus 17
Part One: The Need
for Continuing Dialogue
1 The “H” Words: Hermeneutics and
Homosexuality • 25
C. Norman Kraus
2 Psychological
Dynamics: Being Gay or Lesbian • 45
Marcus Smucker
3 Homosexuality:
Biblical, Theological, and Polity Issues • 62
David Schroeder
4 A Pastoral Plea •
76
Paul M. Lederach
5 The Story of the
Listening Committee • 81
Melanie Zuercher and Edward Stoltzfus
6 Mennonites and the
Homosexual Issue: A Recent History • 92
Lin Garber
7 Mennonites Shift
Focus from Morality to Who Belongs • 111
Michael A. King
Part Two: Framing
the Theological Questions
8 Why Does the Bible Divide Us? A Conversation with
Scripture on Same-Gender Attaction • 121
Don Blosser
9 Does Homosexuality
Have a Biological Basis? • 148
Carl S. Keener and Douglas E. Swartzendruber
10 Homosexuality: A
Call for Compassion and Moral Rigor • 174
A. James Reimer
11 Six Perspectives on
the Homosexuality Controversy • 187
Theodore Grimsrud
12. What Can We Do When
We Don’t Agree?
Christian Tolerance in Romans 14:1–15:6 •
209
Reta Halteman Finger
13 Fruit of the Spirit
or Works of the Flesh? Come Let Us Reason Together •
223
Mark Thiessen Nation
14. Commanded to Keep
Wrestlingand Wrestling and Wrestling • 245
Carolyn Schrock-Shenk
15 Making Theological
and Ethical Decisions: Contextualizing the Bible •
256
C. Norman Kraus
16 Responses •
280
Mary Schertz, John A. Lapp, Willard M. Swartley,
Sheldon Burkhalter, Richard Showalter, Elsie Steelberg
and Donald Steelberg, Elaine K. Swartzentruber, George R.
Brunk
Appendix A: Report
of Listening Committee for Homosexual Concerns 303
Appendix B: Entering the Homosexuality Discussion: A
Guide For Congregational Dialogue 323
The
Contributors 328
The
Editor 332
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