A biblical model for counselling same-gender couples who want to dissolve their relationship
Mobey, Craig Fredrick
A biblical model for counselling same-gender couples who want to dissolve their relationship - Johannesburg South Africa South African Theological Seminary February 2019 - 168 pages PDF A4 Abstract, TOC
It is indisputable that persons in same gender relationships are not immune to the pain of rejection, isolation and ridicule. God loves all persons and they deserve to be treated with respect, love, compassion, empathy and understanding by all believers. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, from conservative biblical standpoint, same-gender relationships are inconsistent with the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the time-transcendent Word of God. The postmodern epistemological discourse on the knowability of truth rejects the singularity of the same in favour of social constructionism. Social constructionism being inherently inconsistent nonetheless advances unorthodox and/or flawed hermeneutical and idiosyncratic constructs in its defensibility of same-gender relationships. Upon this unstable bed rock, bolstered by psychosocial and historical factors, there has been a significant change in the attitude of society and some churches toward accepting same-gender relationships as biblically normative; a viewpoint which this thesis articulates. With the immutability of God as a fundamental point of departure, agrammatical-historical analysis of key Scriptures confirms traditional relationships and culminates in a biblical model for counselling same-gender couples who want to dissolve their relationship
A biblical model for counselling same-gender couples who want to dissolve their relationship - Johannesburg South Africa South African Theological Seminary February 2019 - 168 pages PDF A4 Abstract, TOC
It is indisputable that persons in same gender relationships are not immune to the pain of rejection, isolation and ridicule. God loves all persons and they deserve to be treated with respect, love, compassion, empathy and understanding by all believers. Notwithstanding the aforementioned, from conservative biblical standpoint, same-gender relationships are inconsistent with the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the time-transcendent Word of God. The postmodern epistemological discourse on the knowability of truth rejects the singularity of the same in favour of social constructionism. Social constructionism being inherently inconsistent nonetheless advances unorthodox and/or flawed hermeneutical and idiosyncratic constructs in its defensibility of same-gender relationships. Upon this unstable bed rock, bolstered by psychosocial and historical factors, there has been a significant change in the attitude of society and some churches toward accepting same-gender relationships as biblically normative; a viewpoint which this thesis articulates. With the immutability of God as a fundamental point of departure, agrammatical-historical analysis of key Scriptures confirms traditional relationships and culminates in a biblical model for counselling same-gender couples who want to dissolve their relationship