当代基督教神学视野下的同性恋问题

Contemporary Christian Theologies of Homosexuality: A Typology

一、导言"同性恋"(homosexuality)在当今世界乃至中国社会都早已并非新鲜的议题。在世俗理论界,来自生物学、社会学及心理学对这一议题的研究可称得上汗牛充栋。较之半个世纪前,今天的人们对同性恋现象的理解已经取得了巨大进展,对这一群体的接纳程度也有了相当的提高。关于同性恋的这种知识及态度上的变迁同样也发生在宗教领域,特别是基督宗教内部。

Since the 1970 s, influenced by burgeioning research on homosexuality in the natural and social sciences, a deep change in the theological understanding of homosexuality have begun to emerge within the Christian community. While Christianity as a whole is experiencing this change, it is not happening uniformly among Christian traditions and denominations, and there exists a variety of Christian theologies of homosexuality. This essay provides a typological examination of these different understandings of homosexuality. Rather than offering a normative Christian understanding of homosexuality, this descriptive study focuses on those theological and exegetic rationales from which different attitudes toward homosexuality emerge within Christianity.