num_pages: 168
description: Gay Christian author and activist Chris Glaser believes that sexual minorities, often denied their churches' traditional sacraments, have found unique access to the sacred in their lives: coming out of the closet. Glaser persuasively argues that coming out--as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered--has biblical precedence and sacramental dimensions. Using personal and biblical illustrations, he discusses coming out as an act of vulnerability, much like a sacrificial offering of ancient times, that invokes God's presence and effects atonement, or reconciliation. In this engaging book he shows how coming out, like other sacraments, may serve as a means of grace--that is, an experience of God's unconditional love.
language: English
title: Coming Out as Sacrament
titlecomplete: Coming Out as Sacrament
genres: Religion, Theology, Queer, Nonfiction, Christianity, LGBT
ratings_count: 36
publisher: Westminster John Knox Press