Louis William Countryman
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L. William Countryman is professor emeritus of New Testament at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California. He is the author of several books in biblical studies and spirituality, including the most recent Lovesongs Reproaches: Passionate Conversations with God in 2010 and vis mere Calling on the Spirit in Unsettling Times in 2011-both by Morehouse Publishing. vis mindre
Værker af Louis William Countryman
The Poetic Imagination: An Anglican Tradition (Traditions of Christian Spirituality) (1999) 78 eksemplarer
Calling on the Spirit in Unsettling Times: Anglican Present and Future (Canterbury Studies in Anglicanism) (2012) 12 eksemplarer
Associated Works
Gays and the Future of Anglicanism: Responses to the Windsor Report (2005) — Bidragyder — 41 eksemplarer
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- Countryman, Louis William (birth name)
Countryman, Bill [name by which he is most commonly known] - Fødselsdato
- 1941-10-21
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- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- Bopæl
- Berkeley, California, USA
Oakland, California, USA - Uddannelse
- University of Chicago
General Theological Seminary (1965) - Erhverv
- theologian
seminary professor emeritus
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- Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Episcopal Church
North American Patristics Society
Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars
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The author seeks to present a "faithful reading of the pertinent biblical texts, even if that should at times prove uncongenial to once or another group today...". [x] The author admits to a conviction that "Hellenistic philosophy contributed not principles but only details to New Testament sexual ethics." [3]
Women are contagious. For example, at Mount Sinai, "the people" are to consecrate themselves for the great epiphany and are told not to "go near a woman" (Exod. 19:10-15). [29]
Outside of the very short and ambiguous Holiness code for priests, there is "no condemnation of homosexual acts as such in the Torah". [33]… (mere)