{"id":760,"date":"2011-02-16T17:21:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T21:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=760"},"modified":"2011-02-16T17:21:17","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T21:21:17","slug":"knust-on-the-bible-as-authority-for-moral-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/02\/16\/knust-on-the-bible-as-authority-for-moral-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Knust on the Bible as authority for moral claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>We can certainly turn to the Bible for guidance on moral issues, but we should not expect to find simple answers to the moral questions we are asking. Sometimes Biblical conclusions are patently immoral. Sometimes they are deeply inspiring. In either case, we are left with the responsibility for determining what we will believe and affirm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Unprotected-Texts-Bibles-Surprising-Contradictions\/dp\/0061725587\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-761 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2011\/02\/text.jpeg\" alt=\"text\" width=\"183\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/academics\/faculty\/jennifer-wright-knust\/\">Professor Jennifer Knust<\/a>, of the BU School of Theology faculty, in an interview for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/node\/12318\"><em>BU Today<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Prof. Knust, who is a frequent lecturer in the Core first-year Humanities, will be <a href=\"http:\/\/thephoenix.com\/Boston\/Events\/95658-Jennifer-Wright-Knust\/\">reading from her new book<\/a>, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/books\/Unprotected-Texts-Jennifer-Wright-Knust\/?isbn=9780061725586\">Unprotected Texts<\/a>,<\/em> this evening at the Barnes &amp; Noble bookstore in Kenmore Square.<\/p>\n<p><em>Unprotected Texts<\/em> has been featured in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2011\/02\/06\/what-the-bible-really-says-about-sex.html#\" target=\"_blank\"> <em>Newsweek<\/em><\/a>, and Prof. Knust is a guest voice this week on\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post\u2019s<\/a><\/em> \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/onfaith.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/guestvoices\/2011\/02\/debunking_biblical_marriage_why_the_bible_cant_dictate_todays_sexual_morals.html\" target=\"_blank\">On Faith<\/a>\u201d blog. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/stephen-prothero\/sex-in-the-bible-an-inter_b_820950.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a>, she talks with fellow BU Professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/religion\/faculty\/bios\/prothero\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Prothero<\/a> where she says \u201cthe Bible continues to be invoked in today\u2019s public  debates as if it should have the last word on contemporary American  sexual morals,\u201d and that \u201cthe only way the Bible can be a sexual  rulebook is if no one reads it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can certainly turn to the Bible for guidance on moral issues, but we should not expect to find simple answers to the moral questions we are asking. Sometimes Biblical conclusions are patently immoral. Sometimes they are deeply inspiring. In either case, we are left with the responsibility for determining what we will believe and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3860],"tags":[4926,4925,3690,4745,745],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":762,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}