Holy Homosex?

It is an honour to be able to include the text of J.I. Packer's 1998 Open Letter originally co-signed by him, Donald M. Lewis and me.

In some few copies of the first printing there are minor slips as follows: --

P. 3 para. 2 ll. 3-4 read: after several decades of passionate monogamy,

P. 21 n. 14 l. 9 read: However, if He had yielded to them,

P. 63 para. 2 l. 4 read: I think from "South Pacific."

P. 78 l. 2 read: not "Ruthless" but "ruthless."

Pp. 105 ff.: In the Greek search there is a handful of spurious examples, Rom. 1:28, I Cor. 9:27, II Tim. 3:8 and Heb. 6:8, where -dokim- lexemes have found their way in via Accordance. These should be ignored. These passages are distinct from a couple where the text includes a genuine -dik- item, and effectively IMHO there is wordplay.

There have otherwise been some very minor tweaks of formatting which most readers will not even notice.

I have permitted a Kindle edition to go forward, in spite of the fact that in it all the Classical Hebrew lexemes appear reversed from right to left, and in places the Greek text is imperfectly displayed.