William J. Webb is a theologian, ordained

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minister and former professor of

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at Heritage Seminary,

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. He is currently adjunct professor at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto. He is notable for developing the "redemptive-movement" hermeneutic in his book ''Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis'' (2001). This book argues for full role equality of men and women in the church and family while concluding that homosexuality is not a biblically sanctioned lifestyle.

Craig Blomberg Craig L. Blomberg (born August 3, 1955) is an American New Testament scholar. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of the New Testament at Denver Seminary in Colorado where he has been since 1986. His area of academic expertise is the New ...

argues that Webb's "proposals concerning redemptive trajectories are among the more influential (and controversial) of new twenty-first century North American hermeneutical methods to emerge."

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*''The Pelargonium Family: The Species of Pelargonium, Monsonia and Sarcocaulon'' (Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1984). *''Returning Home (Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement)'' (Sheffield, 1993). *''Slaves, Women & Homosexuals: Exploring the Hermeneutics of Cultural Analysis'' (InterVarsity Press, 2001). *''Corporal Punishment in the Bible: A Redemptive-Movement Hermeneutic for Troubling Texts'' (InterVarsity Press, 2011). *(With Gordon K. Oeste) ''Bloody, Brutal, and Barbaric?: Wrestling with Troubling War Texts'' (IVP Academic, 2019).

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