Gerard Patrick Loughlin
is an English
Roman Catholic
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theologian and religious scholar.
He is Professor of Theology and Religion at the
University of Durham
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,
England
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.
He is the
author
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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).
Biography
A
gay
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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 theolog ...
. 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)
See also
*
Postliberal theology
Postliberal theology (often called narrative theology) is a Christian theological movement that focuses on a narrative presentation of the Christian faith as regulative for the development of a coherent systematic theology. Thus, Christianity i ...
*
Radical orthodoxy
Radical orthodoxy is a Christian theological and philosophical school of thought which makes use of postmodern philosophy to reject the paradigm of modernity. The movement was founded by John Milbank and others and takes its name from the title o ...
References
External links
Faculty profileat Durham University
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21st-century British Roman Catholic theologians
Academics of Durham University
Academics of Newcastle University
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter
LGBTQ Roman Catholics
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Queer theologians
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century British Roman Catholic theologians