Telling truths in church : scandal, flesh, and Christian speech / Mark D. Jordan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordan, Mark D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

Homosexuality.

Physical Description:

121 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, [2003]

Summary:

The ongoing crisis in the Catholic Church has revealed certain truths: truths in the memories of abused children and adolescents, and truths about the church's response -- or lack of response -- to evidence about the behavior of some of its priests. But Mark Jordan, in his rich and moving new book, argues that for true reform to occur, the truth telling in the Christian churches must go much farther and deeper than this. Christians, he says, must try to speak truths to one another about the regulations, customs, and fictions that allow the Roman church to operate; about same-sex desire within Catholic structures of clerical power, and the church's devices for silencing these conversations; about the difficulty of telling any truth about God; and about our feelings for the body of the incarnate God. It is this conversation, Jordan shows, this common commitment to careful truth telling and listening in Christian speech, that creates that true Christian community which has been so abused, but of which we are so in need: the community called "church."

Contents:

Telling truths in a "church crisis"

Telling secrets: scandal and church reform

Telling loves: same-sex unions and chatter about marriage

Telling God: honesty in theology

Telling God's body: the flesh of incarnation

Christian words.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-117) and index.

ISBN:

0807010545

OCLC:

50768505

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