Queer Soul and Queer Theology

Ethics and Redemption in Real Life

Laurel C. Schneider, Thelathia Nikki Young

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9781000370324
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Sexuality & Gender in Religion

This book takes up the question of Christian queer theology and ethics through the contested lens of "redemption." Starting from the rootinfinitive "to deem, " the authors argue that queer lives and struggles can illuminate and re-value the richness of embodied experience that is implied in Christian incarnational theology and ethics. Offering a set of virtues gleaned from contemporary lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, and asexual (LGBTIQA) lives and communities, this book introduces a new framework of ethical reasoning. Battered and wrongly condemned by life-denying theologies of redemption and dessicating ethics of virtue, this book asserts that the resilience, creativity, and epistemology manifesting in queer lives and communities are essential to a more generous and liberative Christian theology.

In this book, queer "virtues" not only reveal and re-value queer soul but expose covert viciousness in thetraditional (i.e., inherently colonial and racist, andthus ungodly) "family values" of dominant Christian ethics and theology. It argues that such re-imagining has redemptive potential for Christian life writ large, including the redemption of God.

This book will be a key resource for scholars of queer theology and ethics as well as queer theory, gender and race studies, religious studies, and theology more generally.