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LGBT Week 2009
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Unnatural Associations: Christianity as an Experiment in Human Community
Kathryn Tanner
For all the opposition to gay rights and gay life that we encounter in contemporary religious debates, there nevertheless exists a deep, fundamental affinity between being queer and being Christian -- an affinity whose grounds in Christianity are quite longstanding, abiding, and even traditional.
Central to both are intimate relations with others that the wider society finds unnatural and an interest in the ways those intimate relations promote new forms of personal transformation and community.
These resources are housed on the DSpace at Lancaster Theological Seminary.
Dr. Tanner is the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She does constructive Christian theology in the Protestant tradition, with the intent of addressing contemporary challenges to belief through the creative use of both the history of Christian thought and interdisciplinary methods, such as critical, social, and feminist theory.
Author of five books, including Economy of Grace (2005), Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity : A Brief Systematic Theology (2001), and The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice (1992), Dr. Tanner "[addresses] contemporary challenges to belief through the creative use of both the history of Christian thought and interdisciplinary methods, such as critical, social, and feminist theory."
Dr. Tanner's faculty webpage can be found at : http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/tanner.shtml.
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