Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 colo
Table of Contents
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
