Do Not Despise the Discipline of the Almighty: God as Leather Daddy and Reading Job through Althaus-Reid

The feminist queer theologian Marcella Althaus-Reid (1952-2009) wrote about what it meant to be an “indecent theologian” and claimed that sexual stories from the margins of society can help transform theological issues. What can “indecent theology” mean for the problem of evil specifically as it is...

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Main Author: Rogers, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2017]
In: Religions
Year: 2017, Volume: 8, Issue: 10, Pages: 1-7
Further subjects:B Liberation Theology
B gay studies
B queer reading
B Theodicy
B Sadomasochism
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