Raised in a conservative evangelical home, Vines struggled with his sexuality while attending Harvard. Vines is a former Harvard student whose 2012 video taking aim at the Bible’s teachings on homosexuality went viral. At the very least, his work will help advance the coming rupture in the evangelical church at large over issues of sexuality. But you will need to know him, for the movement he is leading aims to change the way the evangelical church thinks about human sexuality. Readers may not be familiar with Matthew Vines. This week a book making such claims is hitting bookshelves written by a young author named Matthew Vines. Now, Christians are accustomed to either non-Christians or liberal Christians making claims of this nature, but not from individuals supposedly nestled confidently within the evangelical camp. It also puts two millennia of faithful obedience to divine revelation on the side of injustice and ignorance. It recasts basic principles of biblical anthropology and human embodiment. Imagine a book with a thesis that calls into question 2,000 years of established Christian theology and biblical exegesis. Matthew Vines, God and the Gay Christian, New York: Convergent, 2014.
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