- Collection:
- Interdenominational Theological Center Theses & Dissertations Collection
- Title:
- Un-Orthodox: Re-Teaching, Re-Thinking and Re-Learning While Taking Another Look at The Texts Around Homosexuality
- Creator:
- Nowell, Rashaan Lamar
- Date of Original:
- 2015-05
- Subject:
- Dissertations, Academic
Degrees, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This dissertation presents the community-based ministry project, Un-Orthodox as an alternative placement of spiritual uplifting for the African American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer/Questioning (AA GLBTQ) community in Houston, TX at the Montrose Community Center. The problem explored in this dissertation is that the traditional black church has not been a place where persons from the AA GLBTQ community, the community, has found support and acceptance because of its critical use of particular biblical text as instructive of the church on homosexuality. This dissertation presents Un-Orthodox as the researcher's planned resolution to this problem. Un-Orthodox was conceived as a ministry for the community that is not constrained by instructional doctrines and beliefs of the church about homosexuality. Its objective is to deconstruct certain biblical texts and their used in the traditional black church to oppress and dehumanize its AA GLBTQ parishioners and their larger community. The research and intervention utilized the research of biblical criticism, social psychologist and liberation theology to construct a new model for ministry to the AA GBTQ community within the black church and community. The participants in their study are freed to exercise self-acceptance relative to innately identified senses of sexuality along with spiritual expressions the love of God. Reformed literary contextual reflection was the method to integrate scriptural discussion with data input and analyze the input of letters of impact, focus group interviews, questionnaires and surveys as evaluative tools.
Date of award: 2015-05
Degree type: dissertation
Degree name: Doctor of Ministry (DMin)
Granting institution: Interdenominational Theological Center
Advisor: Dr. G-dman, Willie F. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/itc.td:2015_nowell_rashaan
- Holding Institution:
- Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Rights:
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