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Gerard Patrick Loughlin is an English Roman Catholic theologian and religious scholar. He is Professor of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham, England. He is the author of Telling God's Story: Bible Church and Narrative Theology (1996) and Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology (2004).

Biography

A gay Roman Catholic, 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. His doctoral thesis, which he wrote under the supervision of John Robinson, is titled Mirroring God's World: A Critique of John Hick's Speculative Theology.

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

• Postliberal theology
• Radical orthodoxy

References

1. ^ Loughlin, Gerard Patrick (1980). 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 (MA thesis). Lampeter, Wales: University of Wales, Lampeter. OCLC 669697113.
2. Murphy, Francesca (2006). "The Metaphysical Basis of the Difference between Men and Women" (PDF). The Saint Anselm Journal. 4 (1): 1. ISSN 1545-3367. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
3. ^ Loughlin, Gerard (1996). Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press (published 1999). ISBN 978-0-521-66515-5.
4. ^ "Professor Gerard Loughlin, BA MA (Wales) PhD PGCE (Cambridge)". Durham, England: University of Durham. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
5. Loughlin, Gerard (2004). Loughlin, Gerard (ed.). Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing. doi:10.1002/9780470773352. ISBN 978-0-631-21179-2.
6. "Angels in Dirty Places". Times Higher Education. 2 July 1999. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
7. Loughlin, Gerard Patrick (1986). Mirroring God's World: A Critique of John Hick's Speculative Theology (PhD thesis). Cambridge, England: University of Cambridge. OCLC 59749222.

External links

• Faculty profile at Durham University

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• Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter
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