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Publication
- Publisher
- InterVarsity Press
- Date published
- 9 November 2015
The Physical Book
- Binding
- Paperback
- Total pages
- 172 pages
- ISBN-13
- 9780830844517
- ISBN-10
- 0830844511
- LCCN
- 2015033914
Reference
- Notes
- The American edition of a book IVP published in Britain earlier the same year as The Plausibility Problem: The Church and Same-Sex Attraction. Shaw's argument is that the church's teaching seems implausible less because of the texts than because of nine assumptions the church has itself absorbed, and each chapter takes one of them. He writes as a celibate pastor who experiences same-sex attraction. Named among The Gospel Coalition's books of 2015 in Christian living.
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Contents
- Foreword (Vaughan Roberts)
- 1. The Plausibility Problem
- 2. The Plausibility Problem and Me
- Misstep #1: "Your identity is your sexuality."
- Misstep #2: "A family is Mom, Dad and 2.4 children."
- Misstep #3: "If you're born gay, it can't be wrong to be gay."
- Misstep #4: "If it makes you happy, it must be right!"
- Misstep #5: "Sex is where true intimacy is found."
- Misstep #6: "Men and women are equal and interchangeable."
- Misstep #7: "Godliness is heterosexuality."
- Misstep #8: "Celibacy is bad for you."
- Misstep #9: "Suffering is to be avoided."
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: The Plausibility of the Traditional Interpretation of Scripture
- Appendix 2: The Implausibility of the New Interpretations of Scripture
- Acknowledgments
- Recommended Reading
- Notes