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Slaves, Women Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis by William J. Webb
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sruff's review
informative
slow-paced
0.75
I wanted to give this book a higher rating because of its popularization of trajectory hermeneutics, and I found it interesting right away how Webb doesn't view homosexuality as static either, but there were so many fundamental flaws.
In terms of outline, it would've made much more sense to create and order the criteria themselves based on how they logically related to each other, rather than based on how persuasive they are (according to Webb) on one single issue. This would also avoid, for example, creating a criterion (#12) whose existence ignores the rule established by another criterion (#11).
In terms of women, his willingness to hedge his position made it less persuasive. For example, he talks about trying to at least achieve a "more just and equitable" patriarchy (250), but that is oxymoronic; patriarchy is never just.
In terms of homosexuality, he was obviously wrong through and through, but what really got me was one quote in particular: "whether one is a slavery advocate or an abolitionist... the eschatological outcome is the same... Compared to the homosexual issue, the spectrum of alternatives in the slavery/women issues does not call into question one's salvation or eternal destiny" (184). I always try to be charitable those I disagree with, but homosexuality as worse than slavery?
In terms of outline, it would've made much more sense to create and order the criteria themselves based on how they logically related to each other, rather than based on how persuasive they are (according to Webb) on one single issue. This would also avoid, for example, creating a criterion (#12) whose existence ignores the rule established by another criterion (#11).
In terms of women, his willingness to hedge his position made it less persuasive. For example, he talks about trying to at least achieve a "more just and equitable" patriarchy (250), but that is oxymoronic; patriarchy is never just.
In terms of homosexuality, he was obviously wrong through and through, but what really got me was one quote in particular: "whether one is a slavery advocate or an abolitionist... the eschatological outcome is the same... Compared to the homosexual issue, the spectrum of alternatives in the slavery/women issues does not call into question one's salvation or eternal destiny" (184). I always try to be charitable those I disagree with, but homosexuality as worse than slavery?
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