TY - BOOK ID - 134854907 TI - Coming out as sacrament PY - 1998 SN - 0664257488 PB - Louisville Westminster John Knox DB - UniCat KW - Coming out (Sexual orientation) KW - Homosexuality KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134854907 AB - Glaser 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 thimes, that invokes God's presence and effects atonement, or reconciliation. He shows how coming out, like other sacraments, may serve as a means of grace -- that is, an experience of God's unconditional love. ER -