Keller Reviews Two Books on Homosexuality and Christianity

Tim Keller looks at Wesley Hill’s Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality and Sam Allberry’s Is God Anti-Gay? And Other Questions Christians Ask about Homosexuality, the Bible and Same-Sex Attraction.

Here is his conclusion:

But even with this disagreement, I’m glad to see the beginning of something crucial here. These two writers are beginning to describe a particular pathway of Christian discipleship. A literature is going to get started. Others who share their experience and stance are beginning to write about it, too. But this ‘movement’ is still very embryonic. Ironically, we live in a time in which it takes more courage for authors to publicly take this position than it is now to embrace homosexual practice as compatible with Christianity.

These are books written by men who are not experiencing their lives as impoverished or sub-human. Their commitment to chastity within the lives God has given them is one of finding fulfillment and identity in their relationship to Christ.

As you can tell, I’m quite glad to recommend both these books.

You can read the whole thing here.