GAY Desire
A Second Chance for
Gay Theology
For
David M. Halperin
Epigraph
“Only the omnipotent, we might think, only God can live without second chances. And, Freud adds, only the omnipotent need to believe in them.”
— Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips,
Second Chances: Shakespeare and Freud
Contents
01.What Is Traditional Gay Christian Theology?
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02.Gay Desire
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03.It’s a Fem: Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew
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04.Trashy Behavior: Gay Subjects and Christian Disciples
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05.Saint Paul: Towards a Gay Hagiography
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06.Fashion Theology: On Sagging (Masculinity)
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Epilogue: A Theology of the Spirit
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Acknowledgments
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About This Book
Gay Desire is a second chance for traditional gay male Christian theology. Building on David M. Halperin’s How To Be Gay, it (re)defines gay theology as reflection on gay desire within a religious mythos.
The book is being released here in public, chapter by chapter, as it is finished. The Preface is live now; the chapters will arrive as they’re ready. Companion essays and process notes go out through Substack.
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