{"id":9100,"date":"2014-12-04T15:35:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=9100"},"modified":"2014-12-04T15:35:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T19:35:36","slug":"a-very-kind-review-of-gay-and-catholic-at-shored-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/12\/a-very-kind-review-of-gay-and-catholic-at-shored-fragments.html","title":{"rendered":"A Very Kind Review of “Gay and Catholic” at Shored Fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

plus some other book, apparently other people also write books (why?):<\/p>\n

I try to keep up with books addressing human sexuality from a theological\/Christian perspective. The general flow of publications reminds me of an exchange from an old BBC Radio 4 drama:<\/p>\n

\u2018He made pork pies the way Wagner wrote semiquavers.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018You mean they were good?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Not often. But there were an awful lot of them\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n

A minority of the books published simply repeat already well-rehearsed arguments and so contribute nothing to the debate; most of the rest could not be described anything like so positively. This is true on every side of the debate: much heat, little light, and less understanding tend to characterise contributions, which are nonetheless\u00a0routinely\u00a0praised to the skies around social media by the partisans of whichever position they champion, before they, thankfully, disappear almost without trace remaining.<\/p>\n

That the past couple of months\u00a0have brought the publication of not one but two books in the area that are really very good, then, had me watching the end of the road for four blokes on odd coloured horses. The world does not seem about to end, but the fact\u00a0remains. Robert Song and Eve Tushnet have not just added to my (short) list of books worth reading in this area, they have moved towards the top of it. The books are very different: Song is academic, Protestant, and revisionist; Tushnet popular, Catholic, and traditional. Regardless, both make a genuine contribution, and both need to be read.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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