New Approaches in History and Theology to Same-Sex Love and Desire

Mark D. Chapman is Vice-Principal of Ripon College, Professor of the History of Modern Theology at the University of Oxford and Canon Theologian of Truro Cathedral, UK. He is an Anglican priest and member of General Synod of the Church of England and has written widely on many aspects of Church History. Dominic Janes is Professor of Modern History and Director of the History Programme at Keele University, UK. He is a cultural historian who focuses on the histories of gender, sexuality and religion. His most recent books are Picturing the Closet (2015), Visions of Queer Martyrdom (2015) and Oscar Wilde Prefigured (2016).

• 1.  Same-sex love and desire: a time for new approaches; Mark Chapman and Dominic Janes.- 2.Theological amnesia and same-sex love; Adrian Thatcher.- 3. Sexuality as a guide to ethics: God and the variable body in English literature; Chris Mounsey.- 4. The tradition of homophobia: responses to same-sex relationships in Serbian Orthodoxy from the nineteenth century to the present day; Nik Jovčić-Sas.- 5. Sexual ethics in the shadow of modernism: George Tyrrell, André Raffalovich and the project that never was, Philip Heal.- 6.‘Pope Norman’, Griffin’s Report and Roman Catholic reactions to homosexual law reform in England and Wales, 1954–1971; Alana Harris.- 7. They found a niche: same-sex-attracted people in Australian Anglicanism; David Hilliard.- 8. ‘The ecclesial wing of the lavender revolution’: religion and sexual identity organising in the USA, 1946-1976; Heather Rachelle White.- 9. Christ and the Homosexual: an early manifesto for an affirming Christian ministry to homosexuals; Bernard Schlager.- 10. Homosexual practice’ and the Anglican Communion from the 1990s: a case study in theology and identity; Mark Chapman.- 11. How queer can Christian marriage be? Eschatological imagination and the blessing of same-sex unions in the American Episcopal Church; Rémy Bethmont.- 12. Setting the table anew: queering the Lord’s Supper in contemporary art; Mariecke van den Berg.-  13. The queerness of saints: inflecting devotion and same-sex desire; Donald L. Boisvert.- Index.