1. The sorrow and the pity. -- 2. The Word made flesh. -- 3. In the beginning was the Word. -- 4. Queer as folk. -- 5. Old as the hills. -- 6. The day before yesterday. -- 7. The dignity of difference. -- 8. Doing the Lambeth walk. -- 9. Then came Rowan. -- 10. Doctor John. -- 11. Gene genie. -- 12. Paved with good intentions. -- 13. Who bears the cost?
Summary
"In 'A Church at war' Stephen Bathes has given us a book that reads like a thriller and unfolds like a tragedy. It is a story of an attempted coup, the takeover of a once benign and inclusive institution by religious extremists who want to recreate it in their own narrow and destructive image. The battle is ostensibly over homosexuality, but in reality it is about the status and interpretation of the Bible ... Bates takes a pitiless scalpel to the poverty of conservative evangelical thinking on sexuality ... " -- BOOK JACKET
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index
