Queer grace
An essay on the task of queer theology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21691148 |
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| Authors | Micah Cronin (University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-31 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theology and Sexuality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1355-8358 • E-ISSN: 1745-5170 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13558358.2023.2287248 |
| OpenAlex | W4389613030 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
Is queer theology an impossible project? Queer theology which engages Edelman’s queer negativity oscillates around the negation of theology’s participation in upholding the anti-queerness which is fundamental to our social order. Drawing upon Marcella Althaus-Reid, Lee Edelman, Linn Tonstad, and Kent Brintnall, this essay upholds this as a necessary, but impossible, task for queer theology. Assessing this paradox constructively, I propose that it is impossible for queer theology to be sufficiently negative, due to theologians’ inability to maintain a vantage point outside the social and theological order we critique. This inability is a gift of queer grace. Queer grace orients us to the edge of theology’s capability to where God takes on the imperatives of our negative task, and to where we seek God’s eschatological transformation of ourselves, especially gendered and sexual selfhood
Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Theology · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Theological Perspectives and Practices
| Highly cited | No |
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