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| The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics Robert A. J. GAGNON _________________________________________ "I do not, however, know how any reasonable person could read Robert A. J. Gagnon's 500-page book, The Bible and Homosexual Practice: Texts and Hermeneutics (Abingdon, 2001), and not conclude that any exegesis evading the clear meaning of Paul is evasive indeed. Nor from now on can I regard anyone as qualified to debate homosexuality who has not come to terms with Gagnon's encyclopaedic examination of all the relevant passages and all the exegetical hypotheses concerning them." (J.I. Packer, Why I Walked pdf) _________________________________________ The History and Theological Declension of the Church of Scotland (1560-2020): Lessons for Today | Ian Hamilton (5 May 2022, Briarwood Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, Alabama, USA) |
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HERMAN DOOYEWEERD WRITES:
“The formal abolishing of paternal authority by the first wave of the French Revolution was one of the many ‘paper decrees’ which, as an expression of human hubris, were swept away by what is very inadequately termed the logic of the facts. By setting aside the normative principles of law, morality, or culture, human arbitrariness can create a social chaos; it cannot create juridical, moral or historical norms in this way.” (Herman Dooyeweerd: A New Critique of Theoretical Thought, Vol II, p 336)
“The ground-motive of the divine Word-revelation is an indivisible unity. Creation, fall, and redemption cannot be separated . . . Did God reveal himself as the creator so that we could brush this revelation aside? I venture to say that whoever ignores the revelation of creation understands neither the depth of the fall nor the scope of redemption. Relegating creation to the background is not scriptural. Just read the Psalms, where the devout poet rejoices in the ordinances that God decreed for creation. Read the book of Job, where God himself speaks to his intensely suffering servant of the richness and depth of the laws which he established for his creatures. Read the gospels, where Christ appeals to the creational ordinance for marriage in order to counter those who aimed at trapping him. Finally, read Romans 1:19-20, where the creational ordinances are explicitly included in the general revelation to the human race. Whoever holds that the original creational ordinances are unknowable for fallen man because of the effects of sin, does basic injustice to the true significance of God’s common grace which maintains these ordinances. Sin changed not the creational decrees but the direction of the human heart.” (Herman Dooyeweerd, Roots of Western Culture, p. 59.)
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