Radical Love

An Introduction to Queer Theology

Patrick S. Cheng

• Publisher: Seabury Books
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781596271364
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Sessualità e genere nella religione

The first introductory textbook on the subject of queer theology.

Contextual theologies have developed from a number of perspectives – including feminist theology, black theology, womanist theology, Latin American liberation theology, and Asian American theology – and a wide variety of academic and general introductions exist to examine each one. However, Radical Love is the first introductory textbook on the subject of queer theology.

In this lucid and compelling introduction, Cheng provides a historical survey of how queer theology has developed from the 1950s to today and then explicates the themes of queer theology using the ecumenical creeds as a general framework. Topics include revelation, God, Trinity, creation, Jesus Christ, atonement, sin, grace, Holy Spirit, church, sacraments, and last things, as seen through the lenses of LGBT theologians.

Index

A

Abelard, Peter, 97

Abilities, 109

Ackelsberg, Martha, 126

Acknowledgments, vii

ACT-UP, 80

ad orientem, 122

Adam, New, 89

Adam and Eve, 64, 66, 71

Adam and Steve, 64, 66

Adams, Elizabeth, 126

Advocate, The, 29

Aelred of Riveaulx, 114

Aeneid, 3

African American queer

theology, 39, 75–76

African Diaspora religions, 39

ages, 109

Agnes, 128

Alison, James, 72, 96, 103

Alpert, Rebecca, xii

Althaus-Reid, Marcella, xi, 9–11, 37–38, 48, 54, 58–59, 75–77, 81–82, 88, 92, 116

American Academy of

Religion, vii

anal pleasure, 109

anal sex, 112

Anderson, Lisa Ann, 75

Anderson, Victor, 75

Angels, xiii, 65–66, 140

Anglican Communion, 19, 107, 126

anointing of the sick, 120, 128

anthropomorphism, 73

antinomianism, x, 104

Antony, 116

apokatastasis, 101, 135–136

apologetic theology, xi, 26, 27–30, 33

apophasis, 47–48, 91

Ap...