The bodies, desires, and sexuality in Christianity Kamitsuka, Margaret D. ed. text bibliography mnu Minneapolis, MN Fortress Press c2010 2010 monographic eng

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xi, 356 p. ; pbk ; 23 cm. Introduction / Margaret D. Kamitsuka Part 1 : History : engaging eros in the tradition. Early Christian contempt for the flesh and the woman who loved too much in the Gospel of Luke / David H. Jensen -- The New Testament, empire and homoeroticism / William Stacy Johnson -- Augustine on eros, desire and sexuality / John E. Thiel -- Thomas Aquinas on the body and bodily passions / Corey Barnes -- Humanae vitae, sexual ethics and the Roman Catholic Church / Tatha Wiley -- Reformation views on celibacy : an analogy for gay Protestants today / Paul E. Capetz. Part 2. Culture : bodies, desire and sexual identities. Passing as male in the Academy : dynamics of performance and desire / Shannon Craigo-Snell -- "Baptizing" queer characters / Mark D. Jordan -- Eroticized wives : evangelical marriage guides and God's plan for the Christian family / Rebecca L. Davis -- "Eros", AIDS and African bodies : a theological commentary on deadly desires / Edward P. Antonio -- Queering white male fear in the mirror of hip-hop erotics / James W. Perkinson. Part 3. Reconstruction : erotic theology. Creation as God's call into erotic embodied relationality / Laurie A. Jungling -- Promiscuous incarnation / Laurel C. Schneider -- Ecclesiology, desire and the erotic / Paul Lakeland -- Swx in Heaven? : Eschatological eros and the resurrection of the body / Margaret D. Kamitsuka -- "Flesh that dances" : a theology of sexuality and the Spirit in Tom Morrison's "Beloved" / Joy R. Bostic. Afterword / Serene Jones. Margaret D. Kamitsuka, editor. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Sex History of doctrines Sex Religious aspects Christianity 233.5/EMB 9780800696672 (alk. paper) 2009042985 DLC 091013 20120702135548.0 15942848