Tangling with Orthodox Tradition in the Modern West: Natural Law, Homosexuality, and Living Tradition

by Brandon Gallaher

I find the subject of homosexuality painful. I find this subject difficult. I do not normally comment on how anything affects me personally in an academic context. But this is an exception. At least part of what brought me to Orthodoxy more than twenty-five years ago from my native evangelical Anglicanism was a combination of exhaustion at the endless debate about homosexuality and a sense that the changes my native church was then undergoing were a slippery slope out of classical Christianity.

Brandon Gallaher

A senior lecturer of systematic and comparative theology at the University of Exeter and a deacon of the Ecumenical Patriarchate serving in the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain. He is the author of Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology (Oxford University Press, 2016). His latest book, co-edited with John Chryssavgis, is The Living Christ: The Theological Legacy of Georges Florovsky (Bloomsbury, 2021). Gallaher’s recent research has focused on Orthodoxy and modernity. He is writing a book on Sergii Bulgakov’s ecclesiology.

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