Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Queering Theology Studies
A Queer Science of the Sacraments
Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Queering Theology Studies
ISBN: 978-0-567-08192-6
Verlag: T&T Clark
Exploring the connections between gender and sexual identity and Christian sacramental theology and practice in the light of contemporary debates around these issues in the Churches.
- Homosexuality is one of the most controversial and hotly contested issues in the Church
- One of the first titles in a groundbreaking new series edited by two leading theologians in this field
- Elizabeth Stuart is one of the founding editors of Theology and Sexuality, the leading journal in the field
- An accessible yet challenging introduction to the relatively new area of queer theory and theology.
This study seeks to explore the connections between gender and sexual identity and Christian sacramental theology and practice in the light of contemporary debates around these issues in the Churches. It approaches the sacraments from the perspective of queer theory and theology drawing upon the work of Christian mystics who have claimed to observe the inner workings of the sacraments, in order to explore how, from a Christian perspective, identity may be forged in the liturgical space between worlds and what the implications of such an understanding may be for contemporary discussion around these issues within western Christianity.
Elizabeth Stuart argues that from a theological perspective queer theory is informative because sexuality and gender have never had ultimate status in the Christian tradition. It is by baptism and not by biology that one becomes a Christian. Exploding Mystery seeks to extend that argument into a theory that the sacraments are the means by which the Church performs its identity and therefore individual members of the Church are created and formed by their participation in that performance. Furthermore if this theory is credible, this sacramentally informed and performed identity must impact upon the performance of the identity scripts handed down by the dominant culture. Stuart maintains that the Church is the only community under a mandate to be queer and that it is rendered queer through its sacraments.
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Students, scholars
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Weitere Infos & Material
1. Exploding Mystery: Catholicity and Identity
2. Baptism and the Destabilisation of the Self
3. Eucharist: The Trace of the Veil
4. Penance: Reorientating the Soul
5. Confirmation: Confirming Non-Conformity
6. Ordination: The Breaking Open of the Heart
7. Marriage: Dancing into the Trinity
8. Unction: Sealing the Soul
