Elizabeth Moberly is a British research
psychologist
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and
theologian
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. Moberly is the author of ''Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic'', in which she suggests several possible causes of male
homosexuality
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and a therapeutic cure.
Moberly was involved in ministry to homosexuals as Director of Psychosexual Education and Therapy for BCM International. She subsequently became involved in
cancer research
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Cancer research ranges from epidemiology, molecular bioscience to the performance of clinical trials to evaluate ...
.
[Moberly, Elizabeth]
Homosexuality and the Truth
''First Things'', Vol.71 (March 1997): 30-33.
Bibliography
* ''Suffering, Innocent and Guilty'' (1978), S.P.C.K.
* ''Psychogenesis: The Early Development of Gender Identity'' (1983), Routledge and Kegan Paul.
* ''Homosexuality: A New Christian Ethic'' (1983), James Clarke & Co. ;
* ''The Psychology of Self and Other'' (1985), Tavistock Publications. ;
References
External links
*Moberly, Elizabeth
Book Review: Theological Ethics ''The Expository Times'', Vol. 94, No 10 (1983): 314.
*A Study of Psychological Insights
http://humanumreview.com/articles/moberly-a-study-of-psychological-insights
Sexual orientation change efforts
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
British psychologists
20th-century British non-fiction writers
20th-century British women writers
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