Being the Body of Christ: Towards a Twentieth-Century Homosexual Theology for the Anglican Church

Chris Mounsey

Being the Body of Christ

Towards a Twentieth-Century Homosexual Theology for the Anglican Church

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The book explores the preoccupation of key twentieth-century English writers with theology and sexuality and how the Anglican Church has responded and continues to respond to the issue of homosexuality. Analysing the work of Oscar Wilde, E. F. Benson, Edward Carpenter, Jeanette Winterson, and Alan Hollingshurst, the book explores the literary tradition of exasperation at the church's obduracy against homosexuality.

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Being the Body of Christ

Towards a Twentieth-Century Homosexual Theology for the Anglican Church

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Introduction: Homosexuality and Anglicanism
pp 1-10

PART I

1 - Oscar Wilde: ‘The Fisherman and His Soul’ – The Failure of Organized Religion
pp 11-34

2 - E.F. Benson: The David Blaize trilogy, A Sexuality Fit for My Lord – E.F.B., God and the Archbishop
pp 35-48

3 - E.F. Benson: The David Blaize trilogy, A Sexuality Fit for My Lord – The Closet of Nightmares
pp 49-87

4 - E.F. Benson: The David Blaize trilogy, A Sexuality Fit for My Lord – The Release of Masturbation
pp 88-103

5 - E.F. Benson: The David Blaize trilogy, A Sexuality Fit for My Lord – From Boy Love to Manly Love: Marriage, Ministry and Maintaining the Gift of Continency
pp 104-142

PART II

6 - Edward Carpenter: Towards Democracy – The Greatest Poet England Never Had
pp 143-163

7 - Alan Hollinghurst: The Swimming-Pool Library – The Belle Époque of a Prodigal
pp 164-197

8 - Jeanette Winterson: Lighthousekeeping and The PowerBook – The Theology of the Body
pp 198-215

Conclusion: Blindness and Insight – Some Reflections
pp 216-227

Select Bibliography
pp 228-230

Subject Index
pp 231-233

Author Index
pp 234-234

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