Gerard Patrick Loughlin is an English

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theologian and religious scholar. He is Professor of Theology and Religion at the

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. He is the

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of ''Telling God's Story: Bible Church and Narrative Theology'' (1996) and ''Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology'' (2004).

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Roman Catholic, some of Loughlin's work is in the sub-discipline of

queer theology Queer theology is a theological method that has developed out of the philosophical approach of queer theory, built upon scholars such as Marcella Althaus-Reid, Michel Foucault, Gayle Rubin, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Judith Butler. Queer theol ...

. He is the coeditor (with Jon Davies) of ''Sex These Days: Essays on Theology, Sexuality and Society'' (Continuum 1997) and editor of ''Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body'' (Blackwell, 2007). He serves on the editorial board of '' Literature and Theology'' (Oxford University Press) and is co-editor (with Elizabeth Stuart and Kent Brintnall) of ''Theology and Sexuality'' (Taylor&Francis). His master's thesis is titled ''The Novels of Modernism: The Embodiment of Roman Catholic Modernism in the Literature of Religious Turmoil and Faith at the Turn of the Century, c. 1888–1914''. His doctoral thesis, which he wrote under the supervision of John Robinson, is titled ''Mirroring God's World: A Critique of John Hick's Speculative Theology''.

Published works

* ''Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) * (ed. with Jon Davies) ''Sex These Days: Essays on Theology, Sexuality and Society'' (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997) * ''Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004) * (ed.) ''Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)

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