Cultural Context – An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy

Sexuality and Slavery – Part Five

By Peter Ould Posted on February 3, 2010 Posted in Scripture, Sexuality, Theology 20 Comments Tagged with 1 Corinthians 6, Arsenokoites, Assumption, Biblical Passages, Couples, Cultural Context, Homosexual Behaviour, Men And Women, Monogamous Relationships, New Testament, Pauline, Romans, Scripture, Sexual Behaviours, Sexuality, Sidebar, Slavery, Subset, Texts, Theology

Back in the summer I began a series examining the Biblical passages around homosexual behaviour with a view to approaching the texts afresh to explore whether some of theology that I currently have was in any sense assumptive. You can …

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Sexuality and Slavery – Part Two

By Peter Ould Posted on July 2, 2009 Posted in Sexuality, Theology 7 Comments Tagged with Actuality, Axiomatic Basis, Conservative Position, Cultural Context, Equivalence, Gay Relationships, God And Man, Hellenistic World, Holy Spirit, Homosexual Practice, Homosexual Relationship, Homosexuality, Inferior Status, Mediterranean World, Moral Precepts, New Testament, Pederasty, Roman Practice, Testament Texts, Testament Writers

In my last post I looked at the question of what forms of homosexual relationship might have been recognised by Paul and the other New Testament writers. I concluded with the observation that given the diverse Roman / Hellenistic world …

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Sexuality and Slavery – Part Five

Sexuality and Slavery – Part Two