ABSTRACT

Instead of remaining suspended at the theoretical level of either dogmatic literalist assertion or positivist historical inquiry, the issue of whether or not the Bible is good news becomes an invitation and a summons to show that it can be so by the way we live and the kinds of community we build. Instead of being 'a lamp unto our feet and a light unto our path', the Bible is trivialized and at the same time the issue of human sexuality is trivialized as well. Obviously, an important ingredient of any Christian attempt to answer 'the question of human sexuality' will be to try to find the relevant biblical material and see what it says. Related to the first problem is the problem of the 'Little Jack Homer' approach to the Bible. Anthony Thiselton, on the other hand, has also shown how this happens in the interpretation of the Bible by some feminists.