Confronting Religious Denial of Gay Marriage by Wallace Catherine M.;

Author:Wallace, Catherine M.; [Wallace, Catherine M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781498225410
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-01-26T08:00:00+00:00

Narratives like this account of Peter’s vision are not to be taken at face value as “objective” accounts of “historical fact.” In The Acts of the Apostles, Luke repeatedly describes unanimity that is flatly contradicted by other sources. Writing generations afterwards, Luke offers an ideal portrait of how Christian communities are supposed to function by projecting unanimity back onto the eminent ancestors.

This historical fact attests to great struggle: these ideals were difficult to put into practice. Arguments about how Jews and Gentiles were to live together repeatedly roiled the early Christian communities, because “kosher” regulations governed every last detail of daily life. This back-and-forth is mapped in painstaking scholarly detail by John Dominick Crossan and Jonathan Reed in a rich and fascinating book, In Search of Paul. (They also mince no words about the scholarly fact that many of the epistles attributed to Paul are flat-out forgeries attempting to undercut Paul’s advocacy for Jesus’ genuinely radical inclusivity.)

Nonetheless, the core principles in this Lukan narrative are both stunning and undeniably true: fidelity to the commandment to love one another can require radical cultural change—both then and now.

In short: Christian religious tradition is not a prison to which no one has a key.

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