Rev Elizabeth M. Edman
Teoksen Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity (Queer Action/Queer Ideas) tekijä
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Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten.Great book. Looks at how several virtues developed within the LGBTQ community can be used to be a model for Christianity and help to transform the church. A positive book that presumes that gay people are part of the church and that their gifts can be used to help enhance its mission.
Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten.(Note: My husband and I share this account. This review was written by him.)
I found this book to be quite excellent, as I was enraptured by Edman’s clear-eyed and compassionate brand of storytelling. It’s part memoir, part sociocultural study, and part Biblical exegesis. She was direct, forthright, and pulled no punches with the life she’s led and the choices she’s made, especially in terms of both her successes and failures.
It’s the inverse of Patrick Cheng’s Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology. She uses hard theology as the seasoning for her narrative prose, as opposed to serving up a dish of dense postmodern theology flavored with the occasional personal reflection.
Finally, as a cis-hetero white dude who attends a progressive Episcopal church and would like to be considered an ally, this was a book I wished I could have read a decade or more ago. I needed to hear about about the love of Christ and how it can change the world from a queer woman of faith.… (lisätietoja)
I found this book to be quite excellent, as I was enraptured by Edman’s clear-eyed and compassionate brand of storytelling. It’s part memoir, part sociocultural study, and part Biblical exegesis. She was direct, forthright, and pulled no punches with the life she’s led and the choices she’s made, especially in terms of both her successes and failures.
It’s the inverse of Patrick Cheng’s Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology. She uses hard theology as the seasoning for her narrative prose, as opposed to serving up a dish of dense postmodern theology flavored with the occasional personal reflection.
Finally, as a cis-hetero white dude who attends a progressive Episcopal church and would like to be considered an ally, this was a book I wished I could have read a decade or more ago. I needed to hear about about the love of Christ and how it can change the world from a queer woman of faith.… (lisätietoja)
Tämä arvostelu kirjoitettiin LibraryThingin Varhaisia arvostelijoita varten.Unapologetic presentation of the virtues that LGBT Christians have developed through socializatin, testing, and trial. While these virtues are not unique to queer people of faith, they have often been made more self-aware of their reliance on these qualities or gained a better appreciation of their faith through them. Neither does it argue that all LGBT individuals are somehow innately 'gifted' in these areas, rather that they are acquired virtues that can be used and taught to the betterment of the Church at large.… (lisätietoja)
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This is terrorism at work. It is spiritual terrorism, and the voices that are most urgently needed to combat this terrorism are the voices of religious authority.
It is good for churches to be inclusive of queer people, but it is not enough. It is important for clergy to be pastoral to queer people, but it is not enough. What is needed now is a bold, pastoral, explicitly Christian response that does what white antilynching activists were not willing to do with regards to race: rupture the false binaries that are employed to demonize queer identity. It matters that we preach not only that the violence is wrong and anti-Christian, but also why it is wrong and anti-Christian."… (lisätietoja)