The Word of God : Why this book, this theme, this author -- A claim that cannot endure -- The Bible and the environment: The ethics of overbreeding -- The virtue of birth control -- The earth fights back -- Bad theology creates bad ecology -- The Bible and women: Creation: The woman is not made in the image of God -- Sexism in Christian history -- The woman as the source of evil -- Menstruation and the male fear of blood -- Recasting the negativity -- The Bible and homosexuality: The ecclesiastical battle over homosexuality: intense, irrational, threatening and hysterical -- The holiness code from the Book of Leviticus -- The story of Sodom -- The homophobia of Paul -- The Bible and children: The appeal in the text "spare the rod" -- Violence is always violent, whether the victim be a child or an adult -- God as judge: searching for the source of the human need to suffer -- God as divine child abuser: the sadomasochism in the heart of Christianity -- Moving beyond the demeaning God into the God of life -- The Bible and anti-Semitism: Searching for the origins of Christian anti-Semitism -- Anti-Semitism in the Gospels -- The role of Judas Iscariot in the rise of anti-Semitism -- The circumstances that brought Judas into the Jesus story -- The Bible and certainty: The symptoms: conversion, missionary expansion, and religious bigotry -- Creedal development in the Christian church -- Since I have the truth, "no one comes to the Father but by me" -- My vision of an interfaith future -- Reading scripture as epic history: The Hebrew scriptures come into being -- Escaping the limits of the epic: the prophets, the writings, the dream -- Jesus and the Jewish epic -- Jesus beyond religion: the sign of the kingdom of God: the epic universalized and humanized.
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