196 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

There are those who go to gay bars and salsa clubs with rosaries in their pockets, and who make camp chapels of their living rooms. Others enter churches with love letters hidden in their bags, because their need for God and their need for love refuse to fit into different compartments. But what goodness and righteousness can prevail if you are in love with someone whom you are ecclesiastically... Read more
Introduction Part I: Queering theology 1. Kneeling, deviant theologians 2. Queering hermeneutics 3. Queering God in relationships: Trinitarians and God the orgy 4. Libertine disclosures 5. Permutations 6. The economy of God's exchange rate mechanism Part II: Queer promiscuities 7. Popular anti-theologies of love 8. Demonology: Embodying rebellious spirits 9. Queer holiness: Postcolonial revelations

Biography

Althaus-Reid, Marcella

'This is a provocative book ... there is a tremendous energy, a delight, an exuberance.' - Dr. Kevin Ward, Church Times

'Althaus-Reid's reinterpretation of the eros of the Trinity is particularly compelling ... This is an important book.' - The Expository Times

'This is an important book. It is also a witty, poetic and disreputable text with bodily imaginings and 'pluralfidelity' that many will find disturbing ... but I recommend it for preachers, theologians and teachers who dare to take a walk on the wild side.' - The Expository Times