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100			_aMobey, Craig Fredrick _9676
245			_aA biblical model for counselling same-gender couples who want to dissolve their relationship
260			_aJohannesburg South Africa _bSouth African Theological Seminary _cFebruary 2019
300			_a168 pages _bPDF _cA4 _eAbstract, TOC
502			_bMaster of Theology _cSouth African Theological Seminary _d2019 _g Professor NL Joubert
520			_aIt 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
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