Ran across this today. It may be the most foolish and errant thing I have read in quite a while. Someone remind me to scratch Candler School of Theology at Emory University off the list of possible places to further my education.
Luke Timothy Johnson, New Testament professor at Emory University, has openly admitted what few liberal Christian defenders of homosexuality will: “I think it important to state clearly that we do, in fact, reject the straightforward commands of Scripture, and appeal instead to another authority when we declare that same-sex unions can be holy and good. We appeal explicitly to the weight of our own experience and the experience thousands of others have witnessed to, which tells us that to claim our own sexual orientation is in fact to accept the way in which God has created us.”
HT: JT
Does this seem absolutely unacceptable to anyone else? Or am I just crazy?
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April 16, 2008 at 12:04 pm
stephenpeterson
As an Emory alum (albeit of the law, and not the theology school), I confirm that you are not crazy. It’s absurd. If the new moral authority is our own experience, then I shudder to think what the future will bring. Keep in mind that this comes from the same theology school where a professor famously declared 40 years ago that God is dead.