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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
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and asexual
(LGBTIQA) lives and communities, this book introduces a new
framework of ethical reasoning. Battered and wrongly condemned by
life-denying theologies of redemption and dessicating ethics of
virtue, this book asserts that the resilience, creativity, and
epistemology manifesting in queer lives and communities are
essential to a more generous and liberative Christian theology. In
this book, queer "virtues" not only reveal and re-value queer soul
but expose covert viciousness in the traditional (i.e., inherently
colonial and racist, and thus ungodly) "family values" of dominant
Christian ethics and theology. It argues that such re-imagining has
redemptive potential for Christian life writ large, including the
redemption of God. This book will be a key resource for scholars of
queer theology and ethics as well as queer theory, gender and race
studies, religious studies, and theology more generally.
The Graham Harman Reader is the essential compendium of shorter
works by one of the most influential philosophers of the
twenty-first century. The writings in this volume are split into
seven chapters. The first concerns Harman's resistance to both
downward and upward reductionism. The second chapter contains works
that develop the specific fourfold structure of Object-Oriented
Ontology. In the third, we find Harman's novel arguments for why
causal relations between two entities can only be indirect. The
fourth chapter discusses why aesthetics deserves to be called first
philosophy. The fifth chapter contains Harman's underrated
contributions to ethics and politics, and the sixth deals with
epistemology, mind, and science. A concluding seventh chapter
contains several previously unpublished writings not available
anywhere else. Written in Harman's typical clear and witty style,
the /Reader/ is an essential resource for veteran readers of Harman
and newcomers alike.
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
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and asexual
(LGBTIQA) lives and communities, this book introduces a new
framework of ethical reasoning. Battered and wrongly condemned by
life-denying theologies of redemption and dessicating ethics of
virtue, this book asserts that the resilience, creativity, and
epistemology manifesting in queer lives and communities are
essential to a more generous and liberative Christian theology. In
this book, queer "virtues" not only reveal and re-value queer soul
but expose covert viciousness in the traditional (i.e., inherently
colonial and racist, and thus ungodly) "family values" of dominant
Christian ethics and theology. It argues that such re-imagining has
redemptive potential for Christian life writ large, including the
redemption of God. This book will be a key resource for scholars of
queer theology and ethics as well as queer theory, gender and race
studies, religious studies, and theology more generally.
This book acknowledges and highlights the moral excellence embedded
in black queer practices of family. Taking the lives, narratives,
and creative explorations of black queer people seriously,
Thelathia Nikki Young brings readers on a journey of new, queer
ethical methods that include confrontation, resistance, and
imagination. Young asserts that family and its surrounding norms
are both microcosms of and foundations for human relationships. She
discusses how black queer people are moral subjects whose ethical
reflection, lived experience, and embodied action demonstrate
valuable moral agency for those of us thinking about liberating and
life-giving ways to enact "family." Young posits that black queer
people enact moral agency in ways that ought to be understood qua
moral agency. Refusing to recognize the examples from this (and any
other) community, Young argues, denies us all the learning and
moral growth that come from connecting with diverse human
experiences. This book investigates how acknowledging and
critically engaging with the moral agency within marginalized
subjectivities allow us to consider and bear witness to the moral
potential in us all.
This book acknowledges and highlights the moral excellence embedded
in black queer practices of family. Taking the lives, narratives,
and creative explorations of black queer people seriously,
Thelathia Nikki Young brings readers on a journey of new, queer
ethical methods that include confrontation, resistance, and
imagination. Young asserts that family and its surrounding norms
are both microcosms of and foundations for human relationships. She
discusses how black queer people are moral subjects whose ethical
reflection, lived experience, and embodied action demonstrate
valuable moral agency for those of us thinking about liberating and
life-giving ways to enact "family." Young posits that black queer
people enact moral agency in ways that ought to be understood qua
moral agency. Refusing to recognize the examples from this (and any
other) community, Young argues, denies us all the learning and
moral growth that come from connecting with diverse human
experiences. This book investigates how acknowledging and
critically engaging with the moral agency within marginalized
subjectivities allow us to consider and bear witness to the moral
potential in us all.
At age ten, Leah Anderson was taught a hard lesson about life after
the death of her father. Love, happiness and perfection only last
so long, so why bother seeking it out. Jaded by his death and the
trauma it caused her family, Leah finds herself detached and
indifferent about her life and about falling in love. In a safe and
unfulfilling engagement to her demanding, perfectionist fiance,
Ellis, it all begins to wear thin. That's when a handsome stranger
comes into her life causing her to second guess everything she's
known and believed. Abruptly ending her engagement and accepting a
date with the stranger, Leah finds herself in a very uncomfortable
reality. Knowing that every choice has its consequence, Leah runs
from her past and lies to her present to keep herself from falling
too deep. But in the end, can she live with choices she makes
because they may ruin it all.
Can you ever really outrun your past? Krissy Mullins, an
overworked, obsessive-compulsive publicist has been giving it her
best shot for the past ten years. Throwing herself into her work
and devoting all her time to her teenage starlet client, Krissy
finds little time for anything else. But as fate would have it, her
world is turned upside down when she falls in love with laid-back
California native, Ben Torres. Unfortunately, her only frame of
reference on love and marriage is her parents and they weren't
exactly the poster children for a happy relationship. As Krissy
attempts to navigate the precarious world of love, acceptance, and
compromise, her past comes flooding back like she never expected.
An ex-boyfriend returns from a life she has tried to forget,
stirring up feelings in Krissy she had thought were long gone.
Pulled in opposite directions as her past and present collide, she
makes a rash decision that will forever change her life.
Through close textual engagement, theological exposition, ethical
reflection, and interdisciplinary collaboration, this book presents
a constructive theology of divine speech in the Acts of the
Apostles and 1 Corinthians in critical conversation with
contemporary issues of sociopolitical, ecclesial, and theological
importance. In particular, the authors attend to pericopes in Acts
and Paul that open up fresh ways of thinking about divine
discourse, preaching, and advocacy in light of contemporary matters
of theological and ethical import. In addition to classical modes
of textual and theological analysis, the authors attend to the
sociopolitical and sociolinguistic aspects of speech as they arise
in these pericopes. As such, the authors are simultaneously
deconstructing these texts through postcolonial and post-structural
analyses to expose these texts to an alterity at work therein, an
alterity that has been muted by centuries of biblical
interpretation.
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