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Queer virtue : what LGBTQ people know about life and love and how it can revitalize Christianity /

"Frustrated by the notion that Christian love = tolerance, Edman argues that Christianity, at its scriptural core, is not a tradition that is hostile to queer people but is, in fact, itself inherently queer. Edman reveals how queering Christianity that is, disrupting simplistic ways of thinking...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edman, Elizabeth M., 1962- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Beacon Press, [2016]
Series:Queer action/queer ideas.
Subjects:
Queer theology.
Sex > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Queer theory.
Christianity.
Sexual minorities > Religious life.
RELIGION > Christian Theology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > LGBT Studies > Gay Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > LGBT Studies > Lesbian Studies.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The path of queer virtue
  • On the inherent queerness of Christianity
  • Identity
  • Risk
  • Touch
  • Scandal
  • Adoption
  • Part II. A priestly people
  • Pride
  • Coming out
  • Authenticity
  • Hospitality
  • A wild, reckless dream of love.