Marcella Althaus-Reid, “Indecent Theologian” Theologian Marcella Althaus – Reid died February 20th 2009, after a theological journey that began with the study and practice of liberation theology in the slums of Argentina under the military junta, and ended as Professor…
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Remembering Marcella Althaus – Reid, “Indecent Theologian”
Theologian Marcella Althaus – Reid died February 20th 2009, after a theological journey that began with the study and practice of liberation theology in the slums of Argentina under the military junta, and ended as Professor of Contextual Theology at…
Coming Out as a Religious Obligation: Micah and Justice.
When I was reading some biographical notes recently about the Argentinian theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid, I was interested to note that she began her career working for the church among the poor of Buenos Aires, applying the techniques of liberation theology…
Gay & Lesbian Theology, Queer Theology: Bibliography (v 1.0, thematic)
For many people, the words “gay theology”, or even more, “queer theology” sound like a contradiction in terms, but it has been around explicitly for some decades now – and implicitly, according to some theologians, from the very beginning, as…
Argentina Approves Family Equality.
It’s been a long night waiting for confirmation, but Argentina has just become the latest country, and the fourth strongly Catholic country, to approve family equality, even in the face of vigorous, highly visible, opposition by the Catholic Church. (Note…
Equality Struggle: Lessons From Latin America
Coming as I do from South Africa where I was born and lived for over half a century, I am acutely aware of the White South African tendency to think, speak and write from within a White mental framework, even…
The Queer God: Thoughts on Confessors, Confessants and Ecclestiastical S/M
What kind of book do you choose to read on a flight? For my midnight, 10 hour flight from Paris to Johannesburg this week, I settled on Marcella Althaus-Reid, “The Queer God”.
