Rotating Pilgrim » Homosexuality http://www.rotatingpilgrim.com ...to annoy, confuse, debunk, educate, and delight Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:20:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Michael Spencer on Victimhood and the Gospel http://www.rotatingpilgrim.com/2009/michael-spencer-on-victimhood-and-the-gospel/ http://www.rotatingpilgrim.com/2009/michael-spencer-on-victimhood-and-the-gospel/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:22:31 +0000 Rotating Pilgrim http://www.rotatingpilgrim.com/?p=119 Spencer served as moderator on a panel at Cornerstone Festival this year discussing homosexuality. He posted reflections on the panel discussion on his blog, Internet Monk. He worried about urges to cast-off what is termed “heteranormativity” in order to allow the victimhood of an oppressed group become the arbiter of biblical exegesis. He then comments further on this idea:

“The mistreatment and oppression of various groups is part of the Biblical story and part of how God reveals himself in scripture, but when we come to the Gospel itself, there is a deep challenge to any idea of empowerment that is based on violence or being the victim of violence. The centrality of Christ and the cross signal a shift- for all of us, and for every group- away from our own victimization to embracing Christ as the ultimate victim through whom all of us are set free. We do not emerge from the New Testament as victimized groups.”

]]> Spencer served as moderator on a panel at Cornerstone Festival this year discussing homosexuality. He posted reflections on the panel discussion on his blog, Internet Monk. He worried about urges to cast-off what is termed “heteranormativity” in order to allow the victimhood of an oppressed group become the arbiter of biblical exegesis. He then comments further on this idea:

“The mistreatment and oppression of various groups is part of the Biblical story and part of how God reveals himself in scripture, but when we come to the Gospel itself, there is a deep challenge to any idea of empowerment that is based on violence or being the victim of violence. The centrality of Christ and the cross signal a shift- for all of us, and for every group- away from our own victimization to embracing Christ as the ultimate victim through whom all of us are set free. We do not emerge from the New Testament as victimized groups.”

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