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course: Gender, Sexuality, and the Bible
professor: Dr. Sylvia Keesmaat
structure: eight two-hour sessions in the evenings
- The Bible has been increasingly used as a weapon in debates about sexuality and gender in the church and in popular culture. This course will focus on the use of the Bible in one recent denominational context (the Human Sexuality Report [HSR] of the Christian Reformed Church), along with other scholarly writings from the Reformed tradition and beyond, to explore the various ways that the Bible has been interpreted with regard to questions related to sexuality and gender. Attention to questions of hermeneutical context as well as the Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman context of the biblical text will provide a lens for engaging with this topic in a way which reflects the generous, welcoming, and redemptive character of the God we find in the biblical story.
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