More Than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church - Inquiry, Thought, and Expression

This volume aims to promote informed, compassionate dialogue about issues of sexual diversity within the Catholic community of faith, as well as in the broader civic worlds that the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic people inhabit; it contains a series of essays from perspectives of ministry, ethics, theology and law.

List of contents

Introduction J. Patrick Hornbeck II and Michael A. Norko 1 Learning to Speak Kelby Harrison 2 Talking About Homosexuality by the (Church) Rules Mark D. Jordan Response to Mark D. Jordan Elizabeth A. Dreyer 3 Lesbian Nuns: A Gift to the Church Jeannine Gramick The Prophetic Life of Lesbian Nuns: A Response to Jeannine Gramick Jamie L. Manson 4 Seminary, Priesthood, and the Vatican's Homosexual Dilemma Gerard Jacobitz 5 Same-Sex Marriage, the Right to Religious and Moral Freedom, and the Catholic Church Michael John Perry 6 God Sets the Lonely in Families Patricia Beattie Jung Response to Patricia Beattie Jung Joan M. Martin 7 Same-Sex Marriage and Catholicism: Dialogue, Learning, and Change Lisa Sowle Cahill 8 Embracing the Stranger: Reflections on the Ambivalent Hospitality of LGBTIQ Catholics Michael Sepidoza Campos 9 Domine, Non Sum Dignus: Theological Bullying and the Roman Catholic Church Patrick S. Cheng 10 Wild(e) Theology: On Choosing Love Frederick S. Roden Afterword Paul Lakeland Notes List of Contributors Index

About the author

J. Patrick Hornbeck II is Chair and Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University. He is the author of What Is a Lollard? Dissent and Belief in Late Medieval England (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Michael A. Norko is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine in the Law and Psychiatry Division.

Summary

This volume aims to promote informed, compassionate dialogue about issues of sexual diversity within the Catholic community of faith, as well as in the broader civic worlds that the Roman Catholic Church and Catholic people inhabit; it contains a series of essays from perspectives of ministry, ethics, theology and law.

Product details

• Authors: J. Patrick Hornbeck, J. Patrick Hornbeck Ii, J. Patrick Norko Hornbeck II, J. Patrick Hornbeck Ii, J. Patrick Hornbeck Norko Ii, Michael A. Norko
• Assisted by: J. Patrick Hornbeck (Editor), J. Patrick Hornbeck Ii (Editor), J Patrick Hornbeck Ii (Editor), J. Patrick Hornbeck Ii (Editor), Michael A Norko (Editor), Michael A. Norko (Editor)
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2014
• EAN: 9780823257638
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-5763-8
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Catholic Practice in North Ame; Catholic Practice in North America (Fup); Catholic Practice in North Ame; Catholic Practice in North America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works