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Coming Out as Sacrament
Coming Out as Sacrament
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Coming Out as Sacrament
Chris Glaser
Westminster John Knox, 1998
ISBN 9780664257484
Softcover, 168 pp.
8.6 X 5.5 X 0.4 inches | 0.5 pounds
Gay Christian author and activist Chris Glaser believes that sexual minorities, often denied their churches' traditional sacraments, have found unique access to the sacred in their lives: coming out of the closet. Glaser persuasively argues that coming out - as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered - has biblical precedence and sacramental dimensions. Using personal and biblical illustrations, he discusses coming out as an act of vulnerability, much like a sacrificial offering of ancient times, that invokes God's presence and effects atonement, or reconciliation. In this engaging book he shows how coming out, like other sacraments, may serve as a means of grace - that is, an experience of God's unconditional love.