Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up

by Robert E. Shore-Goss

In Queering Christ, Robert E. Goss summarizes a decade of his thinking as a queer Christian theologian, sharing his queering of four critical sexuality, Christ, the Bible, and theology.

Genres: Theology, Nonfiction, Religion, Queer, LGBT

263 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2002

Reviews

[Christopher Broadwell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nearly ten years after Jesus Acted Up: A Gay and Lesbian Manifesto in 1993, former Jesuit priest, now theologian and Pastor of a Metropolitan Community Church, Robert E. Goss publishes Queering Christ: Beyond Jesus Acted Up. This text, as mentioned in the forward, is not to be placed on the shelf with gay and lesbian apologetics. Rather, Queering Christ’s (QC) audience of queer theorists and theologians will find that it is to be on a new shelf of its own as Goss constructs a new understanding of queer Christian spirituality. Goss orders the chapters by four different parts— Queering Sexuality, Queering Christ, Queering the Bible, and Queering Theology. Goss’ main task with the twelve ensuing essays is to confound the heteronormativity in Christian spirituality and doctrine, while simultaneously establishing possibilities for queer Christians to engage in “sex-positive” mysticism.