Jesus ACTED UP and Any Possible Future of "Queer Theology". Issue 3 (2nd September 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jordan, Mark D.
• Is Part Of: Theology & sexuality. Volume 21:Issue 3(2015)
• Page Start: 198
• Page End: 204
• Publication Date: 2015-09-02
• Subjects: Althaus-Reid -- eschatology -- Eucharist -- Jesus ACTED UP -- political theology -- queer theology -- silence; Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Periodicals; 261.835
• DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2015.1222676
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1355-8358

Abstract

Abstract : What can we learn about the prospects for "queer theology" from how Goss wrote Jesus ACTED UP into the future for which he hoped? Theology seems to add four things to the book's political arguments and exhortations. It deepens the analyses of oppression, provides stronger means for re-education, invokes divine help, and doubles political theater with sacrament. These tasks of critique, re-education, invocation, and ritual will continue to define any Christian theology that might be called "queer." Each requires the transformation of language. In order to have a future, queer theology must undertake a poiesis outside the endless prattle that sustains present power. Its poetry may first appear as silence.