Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body Book

Notes on Contributors     ix
Preface     xi
Introduction: The End of Sex   Gerard Loughlin     1
Queer Lives     35
Subjectivity and Belief   Kathy Rudy     37
The Gay Thing: Following the Still Small Voice   James Alison     50
Queer Church     63
Sacramental Flesh   Elizabeth Stuart     65
There Is No Sexual Difference   Graham Ward     76
Fecundity: Sex and Social Reproduction   David Matzko McCarthy     86
Queer Origins     97
Eros and Emergence   Catherine Pickstock     99
Omphalos   Gerard Loughlin     115
Queer/ing Tradition     129
Against Rabbinic Sexuality: Textual Reasoning and the Jewish Theology of Sex   Daniel Boyarin     131
Queer Father: Gregory of Nyssa and the Subversion of Identity   Virginia Burrus     147
Queering the Beguines: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Hadewijch of Anvers, Marguerite Porete   Amy Hollywood     163
Bodies Demand Language: Thomas Aquinas   Eugene F. Rogers Jr     176
Love's Urgent Longings: St John of the Cross   Christopher Hinkle     188
A Queer Theology: Hans Urs von Balthasar   Rachel Muers     200
Queer/ing Modernity     213
Reformed and Enlightened Church   Jane Shaw     215
Sex and Secularization   Linda Woodhead     230
"Promising Ashes": A Queer Language of Life   Grace M. Jantzen     245
Antimarriage   Paul Fletcher     254
Queer Orthodoxy     267
Queer Trinity   Gavin D'Costa     269
God's Body   Mark D. Jordan     281
Queen of Heaven   Tina Beattie     293
Desirous Saints   David Matzko McCarthy     305
Bibliography     313
Index of Biblical References     338
General Index     341