RELG 271 Lecture 6: Lecture 6- Politics and Queer Theology (September 28, 2015)
11 Sep 2016
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Liberal: balancing liberal sentiments for freedom and equality with christian theology. Practice/critical: transforming culture through critical reflection and a loose consensus: e. g. browning. Catholic: speaking to contemporary circumstances from perspectives of catholic social teaching and traditional doctrines. Evangelical: maintaining gospel witness in face of critical and antagonistic culture. Queer: dictionary def: strange or odd; the thing that doesn"t fit in, an insult, hurled at one who doesn"t fit in, an insult turned; a sign of pride instead of a mark of shame. Core ideas: answering queerness of god the idea that god is strange in itself in the fallen world. Queer relationship o centrality of gay sexuality to christian thought and culture a reading of scripture. Way of thinking about the church/community a way of thinking about the tradition (on theology and what we think: application of queer to reading of past and address to present (e. g. , re-reading of.
