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From sin to amazing grace: discovering the queer Christ

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Throughout the history of Christianity, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ( LGBT or queer ) people have been condemned as unrepentant sinners who are in dire need of God s saving grace. As a result of this condemnation, LGBT people have been subjected to great spiritual, emotional, and physical abuse and violence. This issue has taken on a particular urgency in light of the horrific string of suicides over the last year of young LGBT people who were subjected to harassment and bullying by their classmates. Cheng argues that people need to be liberated from the traditional legal model of thinking about sin and grace as a violation of divine and natural laws in which grace is understood as the strength to refrain from violating such laws. Rather Cheng proposes a Christological model based upon the theologies of Irenaeus, Bonaventure, and Barth, in which sin and grace are defined in terms of what God has done for us in Jesus Christ..

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Z. HANDIMAN

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230.086 CHE f

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New York : Seabury Press., 2012

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xx,170p.;23 cm.

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English

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978-1-59627-238-5

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230.086

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QUEER THEOLOGY - HOMOSEXUALITY

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