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Gay and Lesbian Theologies - Repetitions With Critical Difference (Paperback, New Ed)
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Gay and Lesbian Theologies - Repetitions With Critical Difference (Paperback, New Ed)
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Gay and lesbian theology has been one of the most distinctive
voices to have emerged in Christian theology in the last 30 years.
It has placed lesbian and gay experience at the heart of the
theological process. Elizabeth Stuart, one of the most prominent
theologians in this field, presents the first critical survey of
gay and lesbian theology arguing that its emergence was nothing
short of miraculous. Gay and lesbian theologians managed to take a
dominant Christian discourse which rendered them sinful, sick and
harmful to the common good and transform it into a theology which
argued that a person's sexuality provided the point of contact
between God and themselves. Stuart argues that, miraculous though
this was, gay and lesbian theology has revealed itself to be
'bankrupt' - incapable of providing universally convincing reasons
for the inclusion of lesbian and gay people and their relationships
in the Church and unable to deal with the defining experience of
lesbian and gay communities in the late twentieth-century - AIDS.
Stuart concludes that lesbian and gay people and their opponents in
the Church have too easily bought into modern constructions of
sexual identity and cut themselves off from a Christian tradition
which is far more 'queer' in that it refuses to accept the
stability of gender and sexual desire. Stuart argues that the only
way out of the current deadlock on the issue of homosexuality in
the Churches is for both sides to embrace this ancient queer
tradition - a Christian tradition which teaches that in the end
gender and sexual identities have no ultimate importance.
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