Gerard Loughlin
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Gerard Patrick Loughlin[1] is an English Roman Catholic theologian[2] and religious scholar.[3] He is Professor of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham, England.[4] He is the author of Telling God's Story: Bible Church and Narrative Theology (1996)[3] and Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology (2004).[5]
Biography
A gay Roman Catholic,[6] some of Loughlin's work is in the sub-discipline of queer theology. 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.[1] His doctoral thesis, which he wrote under the supervision of John Robinson,[4] is titled Mirroring God's World: A Critique of John Hick's Speculative Theology.[7]
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
References
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- Faculty profile at Durham University
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- Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter
- LGBTQ Roman Catholics
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- Queer theologians
- 20th-century British Roman Catholic theologians