REVIEW. Winter 1981 Vol. 6 No. 1.

“ ‘Ex-Gays’: Religiously Mediated Change in Homosexuals” by E. Mansell Pattison and Myra Loy Pattison, The American Journal of Psychiatry, December 1980. by Dr. Ralph Blair The American Psychiatric Association’s scientific declassification of homosexuality as a mental disorder did not prevent the publication of this article that views it as a sort of spiritual disorder….

REVIEW. Fall 1980 Vol. 5 No. 4.

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century by John Boswell (The University of Chicago Press, 1980, 424 pp.) The Unmentionable Vice: Homosexuality in the Later Medieval Period by Michael Goodich (ABC-Clio, 1979, 164 pp.)

REVIEW. Winter 1980 Vol. 5 No. 1.

“Biblical Perspectives on Homosexuality” by Walter Wink, The Christian Century, November 7, 1979. “The Christian Suspicion of Homosexuality” by Hugh A. Koops, New Brunswick Theological Seminary Newsletter, March 1979. by Dr. Ralph Blair Wink teaches biblical interpretation at Auburn Seminary; Koops is dean of New Brunswick Seminary. Both discard references to Sodom since, as Wink…

REVIEW. Winter 1979 Vol. 4 No. 1.

Homosexuality and the Church by Richard Lovelace (Fleming H. Revell, 1978, 158 pp.) by Dr. Ralph Blair Church historian Richard Lovelace fails to comprehend and resolve his basic error: interpreting a natural and morally neutral phenomenon, homosexuality, to be, in all cases, unnatural and, if expressed, sinful. Rather woodenly citing pittances from Barth, Brunner and…