1st Edition

Queer Soul and Queer Theology Ethics and Redemption in Real Life

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

This book takes up the question of Christian queer theology and ethics through the contested lens of "redemption." Starting from the root infinitive "to deem," the authors argue that queer lives and struggles can illuminate and re-value the richness of embodied experience that is implied in Christian incarnational theology and ethics. Offering a set of virtues gleaned from contemporary... Read more

1 Introduction 2 Talking to the Dead  3 Queer Creativity  4 Embodied Beings and Desires; Interlude: The Spaces; Interlude: The Fence  5 Scandal and Improvisation  6 Queer Relations  7 Queer Transformative Epistemologies

Biography

Laurel C. Schneider is Professor of Religious Studies Vanderbilt University, USA. She is the author of Re-Imagining the Divine (1999), Beyond Monotheism: A Theology of Multiplicity (2007), and co-editor of Polydoxy: Theologies of Multiplicity and Relation (2010) and Awake to the Moment: An Introduction to Theology (2016).

Thelathia Nikki Young is Associate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Religion at Bucknell University, USA. She is the author Black Queer Ethics, Family, and Philosophical Imagination (2016) and co-author of In Tongues of Mortals and Angels (2018).

"This book exhibits the sort of theological reflection that occurs when actual Christian lives, rather than abstract theological or philosophical concepts, are central to the project. In addition to being theologically sophisticated, the book contains beautiful, theologically rigorous writing. ...[It] offers a brilliant rethinking of Christian doctrine and a moving testimony of queer Christian creativity, persistence, and faith." - Aaron Klink in Reading Religion