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In the Name of John : Christianity and Homosexuality, Attempts of Integration

Publication |
2015

Abstract

A Hungarian Translation of a monograph, with on chapter added. A ""cultural war"" rages between Christian churches and gay communities in contemporary Western world.

This study presents an overall look at the ""third party"" - those, who try to mitigate this cultural war and find ways of integration of gay identity into Christian tradition. 1/ Attempts are made primarily in the field of church organization. 2/ Analogous attempts are transferred in the field of political discourse. 3/ Biblical studies provide deeper theological arguments for integration. 4/ In the field of the church history there are also some attempts to reconstruct some not-only-negative relations between churches and homosexuals. 5/ This is also related with a search for specific spirituality, i.e. practice of religious life, for gay Christians. 6/ The key area is the one of sacramental theology. Here the question of the nature of church blessing of same-sex unions is discussed.

An addition: The implementation in the Hungarian culture.