{"id":647,"date":"2020-01-18T10:16:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T18:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mischievousspiritandtheology.com\/?page_id=647"},"modified":"2021-01-06T07:48:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:48:20","slug":"unlocking-systems-toward-inclusive-theologies-queer-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mischievousspiritandtheology.com\/tgt\/unlocking-systems-toward-inclusive-theologies-queer-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlocking Orthodoxies For Inclusive Theologies: Queer Alternatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Book Description:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nbook enters a new liminal space between the LGBTQ and denominational Christian\ncommunities. It simultaneously explores how those who identify as queer can\nfind a home in church and how those leading welcoming, or indeed unwelcoming,\ncongregations can better serve both communities. The primary argument is that\nqueer inclusion must not merely mean an assimilation into existing\nheteronormative respectability and approval. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chapters\nare written by a diverse collection of Asian, Latin American, and US theologians,\nreligious studies scholars, and activists. Each of them writes from their own\nsocial context to address the notion of LGBTQ alternative orthodoxies and\npraxes pertaining to God, the saints, failure of the church, queer\neschatologies, and erotic economies. Engaging with issues that are not only\nfaced by those in the theological academy, but also by clergy and congregants,\nthe book addresses those impacted by a history of Christian hostility and\nviolence who have become suspicious of attempts at \u201cacceptance.\u201d It also sets\nout an encouragement for queer theologians and clergy to think deeply about how\nthey form communities where queer perspectives are proactively included. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Endorsements<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The future church\u2019s vitality will unfold on the other side of deconstructed colonial, patriarchal, and hetero-normative orthodoxies. Inspired by a Holy Spirit who is investing Herself in the calling of leaders too long excluded by those orthodoxies, Queer theologians are finding their voice. They are a source of new life, relevance and vitality the Spirit will no longer sideline, and whom the Church now ignores at its own peril. This anthology breathes air into the lungs of a Church being newly birthed, a Church dependent on queered assumptions, praxis, liturgy, theology, and ecclesiology: it delivers on all of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rev. Dr. John Dorhauer<\/strong>, President and General Minister, United Church of Christ<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Church was again left behind society in 2019. The United\nMethodist Church voted to uphold its ban on same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy\nin February, while Taiwan became the first Asian country to legalize same-sex\nmarriage in May. Why is God being pitched against sex between two loving\nindividuals because they are not a man and a woman? This volume weaves together\nthe most important spiritual and theological resources to decipher divine\njustice for our LGBTQ sisters and brothers. It is the most powerful declaration\nof God’s love for them as much as their love for God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wong Wai Ching Angela,<\/strong> Vice President for\nPrograms, United Board, and Honorary Professor, The Chinese University of Hong\nKong<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dive into this cascade of queer theologies with abandon.\nAppreciate the variety of starting points, the range of conclusions. Let\nimagination and the arts, play and sex instruct the one body we are about our\nmultiple desires. Then speak of the divine with more insight and of creation\nwith more care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary E. Hunt<\/strong>, Co-Director, Women\u2019s Alliance for Theology,\nEthics and Ritual (WATER)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This collection of well-written essays on ecclesiology, eschatology,\nhagiography, and incarnational theologies demonstrates brilliantly the editor\u2019s\nclaim that “queer theologies are at their best when they are directed\nbeyond academic discussion to transformative praxis with the aim to reveal new\neconomies of grace to queer folks in dis\/graceful contexts…” (\n“Introduction.”) These essays offer a wealth of original theological\ninsights that are at once transgressive, provocative, inclusive, and\nlife-saving. If only all contemporary Christian theological writing, whether\nexplicitly queer or not, were this good!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bernard Schlager,<\/strong> Associate Professor of\nHistorical and Cultural Studies, Pacific School of Religion and Executive\nDirector, The Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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