Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1718997
L. Cahill
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Pub Date : 2019-09-02DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2020.1718998
Jason Evans
not surveyed.) And even in the highest-scoring group, only 49% of men and 32% of women said sex was of great importance in their lives. Jung attributes sexual dissatisfaction mostly to a lamentable lack of sexual drive and interest that can and should be nurtured (Chapter 7)— true enough. But a darker side is sex as a vehicle of unjust control and power. Jung writes eloquently of Christ’s glorified body—hope for us mere and suffering mortals! Her vision comports well with the stories of Jesus’ Transfiguration, found in the synoptic gospels and 2 Peter. The resurrection accounts, though, are more ambiguous. In John 20, the risen Jesus is known most particularly and conclusively by his wounds. What of the wounded, human sexual body? Sex on Earth As It Is in Heaven presents us with a brilliant pinnacle of transformative expectation. Yet it might be in redeeming contrast to, rather than a celebratory continuation of, “sex on earth” as experienced by most people. And sexual-relational wounds may have eschatological significance too.
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Pub Date : 2019-08-27DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2019.1658430
C. Dalwood
ABSTRACT In this article, I theorize the interpretation of harmful canonical texts with special reference to John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. As a result of the actions and rhetoric of some of its North American evangelical readers, the Institutes has come to function as an intellectual foundation for certain expressions of modern homophobia. In conversation with Jacques Derrida on inheritance and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on reparativity, I thus consider how queer evangelicals (especially those who wish to continue identifying themselves as such) ought to engage both Calvin’s text, particularly, as well as, more generally, those other canonical texts that are sources of trauma. In so doing, I proffer a capacious view of interpretation as not only what one says but also how one lives.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2019.1627171
B. Blackwell
ABSTRACT In the dominant theological production of Mary as holy “Virgin,” theological discourses have ironically hyper-sexualized the Mother of God. This article explores the sexuality of the Virgin, introducing a Popular Queer Mariology. Engaging with Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s treatment of Guadalupe/la Chingada/la Llorona, as well as veneration of Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte, this article contends that popular religiosity provides resources for queering the figure of Mary in ways that destabilizes whore/virgin binaries and affirms death, finitude, and the materiality of the body that dominant theological discourses have attempted to negate.
在主要的神学作品中，玛丽是神圣的“处女”，神学话语讽刺地将上帝之母过度性化。这篇文章探讨了圣母的性取向，介绍了一种流行的同性恋音乐。结合Gloria E. Anzaldúa对Guadalupe/la Chingada/la Llorona的处理，以及对Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte的崇拜，这篇文章认为，流行的宗教信仰为玛丽的形象提供了资源，这种方式破坏了妓女/处女的二元性，并肯定了死亡、有限性和身体的物物性，这些都是主导神学话语试图否定的。
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2019.1652031
M. Rose
ABSTRACT In this article I consider the stories of Jesus’ women ancestors in the genealogy which opens the Gospel of Matthew. Reading these stories in light of Marxist-feminist analyses of marriage, sex work and reproductive labor, alongside contemporary sex workers’ rights discourse, and through Marcella Althaus-Reid's claim that all theology is “a sexual act”, I explore their implications for contemporary debates about property and propriety in both Christian systematic theology and contemporary Christian sexual ethics – which cannot, of course, be disentangled from one another. To conclude, I return to the twinned questions of righteousness and purity which centrally define both theological accounts of Christian identity and Christian sexual ethics, suggesting that righteousness relies for its coherence not only on the abjection of those who fall short of its standards, but also on their labor.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2019.1640922
Adam Beyt
ABSTRACT This article uses the notion of theological imagination, a term describing how the divine interacts with the human on an emotional and embodied level, to bring Margaret Farley, M. Shawn Copeland, and James Baldwin into conversation with each other regarding sexual ethics. In trying to expand descriptions of grace to non-heterosexual relational configurations within the Roman Catholic tradition, Farley, in her book Just Love, suggests the term “pro-creative” should be formulated as “fruitful.” While this term validates the grace found in many relationships, her articulation of “commitment” reifies privileges afforded to monogamous marriages, thus marginalizing “queer” relationships. As a potential solution to this problem, this article uses the theological imagination of the writings of Copeland and Baldwin to illustrate how different forms of relational configurations can be “fruitful” without conforming to normative versions of “commitment.”
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2019.1611727
J. D. R. Mechelke
ABSTRACT Religious and secular groups alike have long marginalized those who practice “kinky sex.” These discourses of bodily control have been deconstructed and proven faulty. However, this proposal goes further than mere deconstruction and exposes the gaping hole under this new deconstruction: what does a doctrine of sin look like for kink practitioners? This gaping hole is lubed and ready to be filled. According to a kinky doctrine, sin is violating consent and obstructing escape, the failure to accept limits, and the external essentialism of identity. This kinky theology of sin will not only be useful for members of the kink community but also for individuals from a wide range of identities and practices.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2019.1647717
Damiano Migliorini
ABSTRACT I will reflect on the reconciliation between “subjective” life and “objective” doctrine experienced by Catholic lgbt couples. Even though their particular experience cannot be considered as universal it can nevertheless constitute a case study for theological reflection. I will propose a theological model for the integration of lgbt Catholics into Christian communities. The case of lgbt Catholics also helps us address the theoretical difficulties of religious pluralism. Their experience of faith is an example of “lived pluralism”. In the lexicon of religious pluralism, this experience is an intra-system or intra-theistic diversity, but it also touches upon the meta-theological issue of the model of reason that is to be applied to every system. I believe that every possible case of pluralism is worth considering if we want to theorize this concept. This may lead us to consider pluralism as a premise from which to start, articulated at different levels.
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Pub Date : 2019-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2019.1636173
Michelle Wolff
ABSTRACT The synoptic Gospels describe Jesus Christ’s transfiguration not as a mode of ontological change, but rather as a means of revelation – that he is the second person of the Trinity. Through a diptych reading of Christ’s transfiguration and crucifixion, I argue that those who experience hate crimes share in Christ’s misrecognition in the midst of revealing truth, which can result in violence and death. Additionally, I offer a constructive, biblical theology of trans and intersex aesthetics that runs counter to neoliberal identity politics by illuminating how the bodily presentation of trans and intersex persons of faith reveal a baptismal truth – that through Christ humanity is adopted as co-heirs with him.
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Pub Date : 2019-04-04DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2019.1594009
A. Vähäkangas
ABSTRACT This article studies the experiences of same-sex couples in connection with a prayer ritual conducted over their registered partnerships and focuses on the pre-legal context of same-sex marriage in Finland. The aim is to analyze conformity and resistance in the participants’ understanding of personalized ritual through Grimes’s categories of language, space, time, and actors. The findings reveal that most of the rituals had both elements of resistance that were understood as following a same-sex culture and of conformity with heterosexual nuptial traditions. Double affiliation with Christian and gay culture produces complex forms of conformity and resistance. Personalization of the religious rituals was more important to the participants of the study than following heterosexual traditions.
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