New Approaches in History and Theology to Same-Sex Love and Desire

Book Overview

1. Same-sex love and desire: a time for new approaches; Mark Chapman and Dominic Janes.- 2.Theological amnesia and same-sex love; Adrian Thatcher.- 3. Sexuality as a guide to ethics: God and the variable body in English literature; Chris Mounsey.- 4. The tradition of homophobia: responses to same-sex relationships in Serbian Orthodoxy from the nineteenth century to the present day; Nik Jovčic-Sas.- 5. Sexual ethics in the shadow of modernism: George Tyrrell, Andr? Raffalovich and the project that never was, Philip Heal.- 6.'Pope Norman', Griffin's Report and Roman Catholic reactions to homosexual law reform in England and Wales, 1954-1971; Alana Harris.- 7. They found a niche: same-sex-attracted people in Australian Anglicanism; David Hilliard.- 8. 'The ecclesial wing of the lavender revolution': religion and sexual identity organising in the USA, 1946-1976; Heather Rachelle White.- 9. Christ and the Homosexual: an early manifesto for an affirming Christian ministry to homosexuals; Bernard Schlager.- 10. Homosexual practice' and the Anglican Communion from the 1990s: a case study in theology and identity; Mark Chapman.- 11. How queer can Christian marriage be? Eschatological imagination and the blessing of same-sex unions in the American Episcopal Church; R?my Bethmont.- 12. Setting the table anew: queering the Lord's Supper in contemporary art; Mariecke van den Berg.- 13. The queerness of saints: inflecting devotion and same-sex desire; Donald L. Boisvert.- Index

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319702106
• ISBN13: 9783319702100
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"