Queering Christianity
Subtitle: finding a place at the table for LGBTQI Christians
By: Robert E. Shore-Goss, Thomas Bohache, Patrick S. Cheng, and Mona West, editors
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781440829659; 9781440829666
Subjects: Church and minorities; Homosexuality; Christianity
Description: "A fascinating read for anyone seeking to understand the conflict between Christianity and LGBTQI individuals, this book is, as its editors proclaim, "a fearlessly wide vision of queer Christians finding a place within Christianity--and claiming their authentic experience and voice.""--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : queering the table  -- Robert E. Shore-Goss; title: At the open table café  -- Douglas Smith -- Part I.; title: Radically inclusive models of God  -- Patrick S. Cheng; title: Faithful to a very queer-acting God, who is always up to something new  -- Robin H. Gorsline; title: Cur Deus Homo(sexual) : the queer incarnation  -- Patrick S. Cheng; title: Grace is green : green incarnational inclusivities  -- Robert E. Shore-Goss; title: The transgendered Christ  -- Megan More; title: The Holy Spirit as mischief maker  -- Robert E. Shore-Goss -- Part II.; title: Opening the body of Christ  -- Thomas Bohache; title: Can we sex this? : eroticizing divinity and humanity  -- Thomas Bohache; title: Reinterpreting baptism : an ongoing dialogue  -- Bryce E. Rich; title: Toward a church of radical Christmas : the open communion in MCC and its ecclesiological consequences  -- Axel Schwaigert; title: Beyond the open table : queering Holy Communion  -- Rachelle Brown; title: Innovations in queer theology : embodying MCC's open communion through theatre of the oppressed  -- Kerri Mesner; title: Communion : playing with redemption  -- Nic Arnzen with the cast and friends of Corpus Christi; title: Bodhisattva Christianity : a case of multiple religious belonging  -- Robert E. Shore-Goss; title: Unzipping church : is there room for everyone?  -- Thomas Bohache -- Part III.; title: Opening the table pastorally  -- Mona West; title: Pastoral care of transgendered youth  -- Joseph Shore-Goss; title: Putting on wedding drag : pastoral care for healing and wholeness in the queer congregation  -- Joan M. Saniuk; title: An inclusive table : same-sex marriage  -- Neil Thomas; title: Coming to the table in leather  -- Lea Brown; title: Queer lectio divina  -- Mona West; title: Spiritual companioning : the art of being present to the spiritual traveler and lighting the path  -- Joseph Shore-Goss; title: Queer hymnody : celebrating lesbian and gay poets and composers -- Jim Mitulski, Donna Hamilton, and Nancy Hall.