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Sex and the Church : Gender, Homosexuality, and the Transformation of Christian

Sex and the Church : Gender, Homosexuality, and the Transformation of Christian Ethics Paperback - 1998

by Kathy Rudy

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In a provocative reexaminatin of the ethics of family, community, and sex, the author contends that the Christian right's campaign against homosexuality has come to limit the agenda for American Christianity as a whole. "We should be asking not whether gay people should be allowed to fit in, but rather which historically gay practices can help transform the schismatic, failing church today".

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  • Title Sex and the Church : Gender, Homosexuality, and the Transformation of Christian Ethics
  • Author Kathy Rudy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Beacon Press, Boston, MA
  • Date 1998
  • Features Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0807010359I3N00
  • ISBN 9780807010358 / 0807010359
  • Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.01 x 6.01 x 0.47 in (22.89 x 15.27 x 1.19 cm)
  • Reading level 1540
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96050190
  • Dewey Decimal Code 241.66

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Challenging liberal and conservative sentimentalities surrounding debates about 'homosexuality,' Rudy helps Christians discover that the church matters for how we ought to think about sex. How odd! How wonderful! Everyone should read this book. --Stanley Hauerwas, Divinity School, Duke University

"Kathy Rudy's work brings together the unlikely bedfellows of 'queer' theory and Christian theology, with fascinating results. Sex and the Church is a must-read for those interested in questions of religion and sexual ethics." --Lisa Duggan, coauthor of Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture

"Sex and the Church is about all the topics we often avoid in 'polite' company-sex, religion, and politics. Turning the pages of Rudy's book, I found both a kindred spirit and a worthy opponent. She offers a well-drawn map of sexual and moral territory where the borders are in dispute and civil war is common. As an unchurched gay person, I recommend this book to anyone willing (in Rudy's own words) to 'examine precisely what our sexuality has to do with loving God and being church.'" --Scott Tucker, author of Fighting Words

"This important book initiates a whole new chapter in academic and church discussions of homosexuality by revealing the enormously limited thinking of both the Right and the Left on sexual identity and ethics, and by linking the oppressive binary categories of sexual orientation and gender. Rudy brings an advanced knowledge of the history of the construction of sexuality, queer theory, and the church's ethical thinking to these questions. Rudy also offers an intriguing constructive theological account of the way Christians can distinguish moral from immoral sexual activity without relying on problematic categories from the past." --Mary McClintock Fulkerson, author of Changing the Subject: Women's Discourses and Feminist Theology

"A significant contribution to the field of ethics, American cultural studies, and gay/lesbian theology." --Robert Goss, author of Jesus Acted Up: A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto

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