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The debate over homosexuality, which is tearing at the fabric of what was once mainline Protestantism and beyond, is rooted in questions of authority. Although I do believe that much of the debate is rooted deep down in questions of one's own sexuality, it also has major theological corollaries.
In reading Phyllis Tickle's The Great Emergence (Baker, 2008), I discovered this important statement, one that I do think gets at the