Radical Love:An Introduction to Queer Theology

  • 中文書名 : 徹底的愛:酷兒神學導論
  • 英文書名 : Radical Love:An Introduction to Queer Theology
  • 編輯委員會:胡露茜、黃寶珠及何萬寶
  • 作者:鄭書祥 (Patrick S. Cheng)
  • 翻譯:陳永財
  • 出版:性神學社 Queer Theology Academy, 基恩之家Hong Kong Blessed Minority Christian Fellowship

(Quoted from https://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RNsGVt_LqiEC)

An exploration of the teachings of Jesus in relation to the LGBTQ community that “helps readers welcome a theology that leaves no one behind” (Chris Glaser, author of Coming Out as Sacrament).

A common claim, on both on the political right and left, is that Christianity is incompatible with queerness. As this first book on the subject of queer theology insightfully argues, Jesus Christ can be understood by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as the embodiment of a love so extreme that it dissolves all existing boundaries.

In discussing revelation, God, Trinity, creation, atonement, sin, grace, Holy Spirit, church, and sacraments, Patrick Cheng—a theologian, seminary professor, and ordained minister—provides a historical survey of how queer theology has developed from the 1950s to today, and then illuminates its themes using the ecumenical creeds as his guide. He discusses Jesus’s communion with all people—holy and profane. He explores Jesus’s crossing of all barriers—from Divine to sexual. Above all, he reminds us that those barriers are societal, rather than religious, concepts.

“An excellent introduction for beginners and an excellent synthesis for more advanced readers.” —Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, author of Sensuous Spirituality

 

About the author (2011)

The Reverend Dr. Patrick S. Cheng is associate professor of historical & systematic theology at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He holds degrees from Union Theological Seminary, Harvard Law School, and Yale College. He is the author of the highly regarded books Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology and From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ, both from Seabury Books.

 

(文章內容轉貼自性神學會網站 http://queertheo.com/?q=radicallove)

書籍內容簡介:

英文版的《徹底的愛– 酷兒神學導論》Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology於二零一一年出版,該書係全球首本以處境神學角度出發,介紹酷兒神學的入門教科書。耶魯大學法律系出身的鄭書祥 (Patrick S. Cheng),邏輯清晰,文筆深入淺出。像鄭書祥的華人親筆撰寫的酷兒神學著作,若有中文版本,定必對華文世界的讀者,特別是同志基督徒,有莫大裨益。

鄭書祥 以基督最徹底的愛,來闡釋酷兒神學最核心的福音精神。酷兒理論的主要成就是質疑和攪擾二元思維的邏輯及超越一切人為的分隔,包括性別、性向、種族、階級、年齡、心智及體能等差異;而基督教所宣揚的愛的福音就是藉著耶穌基督的道成肉身,彰顯神對人最徹底的愛(radical love),這愛是要化解和消除一切人為的界線和隔閡,重新肯定每個人都可以按著自己獨特的性/別身份和情慾渴求,來表達和追求一個滿全的人生。

這譯本期望所有對酷兒神學有興趣華文讀者,無論是酷兒、非酷兒、同志、直同志、非同志,都因《徹底的愛》,信仰有所造益。

 

書籍作者簡介:

鄭書祥 (Patrick S. Cheng) 是芝加哥神學院的神學副教授,他擁有耶魯學院的文學士學位,哈佛法學院的法學博士學位,以及紐約協和神學院的系統神學哲學博士、哲學碩士和文學碩士學位。他為聖公會一個全國機構工作,是紐約巿變像教會的助理牧師。他的著作包括

Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology《徹底的愛:酷兒神學導論》(2011), From Sin To Amazing Grace (2012)和 Rainbow Theology (2013)

 

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