Editors note: the following book review appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Eikon.
Darrin W. Snyder Belousek. Marriage, Scripture, and the Church: Theological Discernment on the Question of Same-Sex Union. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2021.
Darrin Belousek’s Marriage, Scripture, and the Church cannot not be quickly dismissed. His volume is well researched, historically informed, and logically rigorous. Belousek, professor of philosophy and religion at Ohio Northern University, examines the question of whether the church should reassess its view of marriage and bless same-sex unions, and builds a Scriptural, doctrinal, and historical argument that it should not do so. Yet, despite this strong stance, there is a deeply concerning flaw woven into Belousek’s language that, I fear, will make the book significantly harmful to the church and the cause of biblical marriage. The combination of Belousek’s strong argument for traditional marriage and his devastating…
