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Queer Holiness Charlie Bell

Queer Holiness By Charlie Bell

Queer Holiness by Charlie Bell


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Summary

LGBTQI people in the church have spent a long time being told what God expects of them and how they should behave. In Queer Holiness Charlie Bell argues that to push such a theology is not only deficient, but fundamentally untheological, and challenges Christians to seriously grapple with the consequences of doing so.

Queer Holiness Summary

Queer Holiness: The Gift of LGBTQI People to the Church by Charlie Bell

LGBTQI people in the church have spent a long time being told what God expects of them and how they should behave. From prohibitions on who they might love or marry, to erasure and denial, the theological record is one in which LGBTQI people are far too often objectified and their lives seen as the property of others. In no other significant religious question are 'theological' arguments made that so clearly reject overwhelming scientific and experiential knowledge about the human person. This book seeks to find a better way to do theology - not about, but with and of LGBTQI people - taking insights from the sciences and personal narratives as it seeks to answer the question: 'What does human flourishing look like?'

Queer Holiness Reviews

'This is an enjoyably grown-up book. As such, it is a useful rebuke to the desperate immaturity of the Church of England's official stances on sexuality, but it is also a gift to the wider Christian Church: a call to enrich its mission and to listen more closely to the implications of the Gospel.' -- Diarmaid MacCulloch 'Charlie Bell has written a fine, orthodox Christian book. He is faithful to God's revelation, respectful of Scripture, committed to a good future for the Church. He will not stand for a world where the lives and loves of LGBTQI people are disdained or intellectualised as a subject for debate. His anger is real and measured and true, placed in a context of divine love and human holiness, like the anger of the biblical Jesus himself. And in the end he points us to a vision of a whole humanity redeemed in Christ; a vision of glory. Very highly recommended!' -- Rt Revd Paul Bayes 'This insightful book is a comprehensive survey of the role of scripture, tradition and reason in understanding what it means to be human and Christian, focusing consistently Christ, human and divine, and on being human. The author describes it as a call to action - for LGBTQI people, their allies, and the whole people of God. I hope it will be very widely read and pondered: It deserves to be.' -- Rt Revd John Inge

About Charlie Bell

Charlie Bell is an Academic Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London. He is also the John Marks Fellow, College Lecturer and Director of Studies in Medicine at Girton College Cambridge. In 2021 he was ordained deacon in the Church of England and is serving his curacy in the Diocese of Southwark.

Additional information

CIN1913657922G
9781913657925
1913657922
Queer Holiness: The Gift of LGBTQI People to the Church by Charlie Bell
Used - Good
Hardback
Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
2022-05-31
192
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