871: Responding to Arguments for Same-Sex Marriage: Dr. Darrin Snyder Belousek
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🗓️ 31 May 2021
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Summary
Darrin W. Snyder Belousek teaches philosophy and religion at Ohio Northern University. He has taught previously at various church-related colleges: Bluffton University, Louisburg College, Bethel College, Lithuania Christian College, Goshen College, and St. Mary's College. He received a Ph.D. in history and philosophy of science from the University of Notre Dame (1998) and a certificate of theological studies from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary (2017).
Dr. Belousek has written an outsstanding book about same-sex marriage titled: Marriage, Scripture, and the Church: Theological Discernment on the Question of Same-Sex Union. In this podcast, we talk about the meaning of marriage, Ephesians 5, sex difference (or sexuate correspondance, as he calls it), Genesis 1-2, and why the question of marriage is at the center of these debates.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Raw. I have on the show today, |
| 0:04.5 | Dr. Darren W. Snyder Balusik. Balusik, I think I pronounced that right. |
| 0:12.0 | Darren is the author of a few different books. The first big book he wrote is called |
| 0:17.2 | Atonement Justice and Peace. And he also wrote Good News, The Advent of Salvation, |
| 0:23.5 | The Gospel Luke. The book we're going to talk about today is his recent book, which is an |
| 0:27.6 | absolutely outstanding book called Marriage, Scripture and the Church. I have it right here. |
| 0:33.4 | If you're watching on YouTube, I'm holding it up in front of the camera. The subtitle is |
| 0:38.1 | Theological Desermine on the Question of Same-sex Union. When I got an email last fall to endorse |
| 0:46.8 | this book, I got an email from Baker Publishing saying, hey, would you consider endorsing Darren's |
| 0:50.8 | book? I almost deleted the email for two reasons. Number one, I was on sabbatical. I was |
| 0:56.4 | deleting a lot of emails when I would actually check my email. And number two, I kind of thought |
| 1:01.9 | another book on Same-sex marriage, like I think what else is there that hasn't been said, you know? |
| 1:09.7 | But I happened to open up the manuscript and started looking at it, and immediately I was hooked. |
| 1:15.1 | I'm like, oh my gosh, this is the kind of missing link to this conversation. Not that, |
| 1:20.8 | you know, what he talks about hasn't been said before necessarily, but the way he frames the |
| 1:25.6 | conversation about the meaning of marriage as the starting point for wrestling with what does the |
| 1:33.2 | Bible say about same-sex sexual unions? It ultimately is a question about what is marriage. And I've |
| 1:41.1 | said that I've kind of been emphasizing that over the last few years, but even as I mentioned |
| 1:45.6 | the podcast, even in my own book, people to be loved, I've got a chapter on marriage, and I don't |
| 1:49.7 | think it was done that well, because I don't think I framed it in exactly the same way that Darren |
| 1:55.4 | frames the question. And knowing that, looking back on my book, people to be loved, like, oh, |
| 1:59.5 | man, if I was going to rewrite this book, much of what I say in the book would probably say the same, |
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