Being the Body of Christ: Towards a Twenty-First Century Homosexual Theology for the Anglican Church

ISBN-13: 9781138110625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str.

Chris Mounsey

Opis

The book explores the twentieth-century novel from the perspective that it is more concerned with theological debate than we might like to think. It reads five twentieth-century writers who have written the equivalent of sermons.

Spis treści

Introduction: Homosexuality and Anglicanism  Part 1  1. Oscar Wilde: "The Fisherman and his Soul"-The Failure of Organized Religion  2. E F Benson: The David Blaize Trilogy, A Sexuality Fit for My Lord- E.F.B., God and the Archbishop  3. E. F. Benson: The David Blaize Trilogy, A Sexuality Fit for My Lord – The Closet of Nightmares  4. E. F. Benson: The David Blaize Trilogy, A Sexuality Fit for My Lord – The Release of Masturbation  5. E. F. Benson: The David Blaize Trilogy, A Sexuality Fit for My Lord – From Boy Love to Manly Love: Marriage, Ministry and Maintaining the Gift of Continency  Part 2  6. Edward Carpenter: Towards Democracy– The Greatest Poet England Never Had  7. Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming-Pool Library– The Belle Époque of a Prodigal  8. Jeanette Winterson: Lighthousekeeping and The PowerBook– The Theology of the Body  Conclusion: Blindness and Insight – Some Reflections

O autorze

Chris Mounsey is Professor of English at the University of Winchester, UK.