Mark D. Jordan is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion at Emory University. He is the author of The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology and The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
"Blessing Same Sex Union is an impressive display of learning and a
clear warning against the dangers of mass marketing and the false
certainty so characteristic of the Christian right."--Daniel A.
Burr "Gay & Lesbian Review"
"A powerful, at times brilliant, brief for Christian churches
blessing same-sex unions. . . . Jordan traces the history of
Christian thought about marriage . . . and insists that there is no
fixed, transhistorical Christian ideal. . . . Since the early
church only grudgingly allowed Christians to marry, same-sex unions
may be no more a departure from previous Christian understandings
of marriage than today's enthusiastic endorsement of heterosexual
marriage. . . . This is not merely a contribution to gay studies;
any Christian who wants to think more clearly about marriage should
read Jordan."-- "Publishers Weekly"
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