Ellison, Erotic Justice Nancy Myer Hopkins, consultant on congregational healing andcharter member of the ISTI Board, is the guest reviewer. The author is professor of Christian ethics at Bangor Theological Seminary. Those with the courage to read this book will find it a most valuable resource. Ellison takes aim at both the conservative and liberal views of sexuality.
Sex thus becomes one of the powerful engines which drives the capitalist economy.
Sexuality also is connected to the human propensity to put negative projections onto those who are in any way different or a threat. This arises out of a dualistic mind-set, a massive and collective split between the body and the mind or spirit, assigning negative values to the body, positive values to the mind and spirit. The liberal tradition gets a grateful nod from Ellison for his own formation, but he also finds deficiencies there. Writing out of his own perspective as a gay man, Ellison credits feminist and liberation theologians with providing the corrective understandings to the traditional liberal one. Patriarchal social patterns of injustice undergird the whole.