Queer God de amor / Miguel H. Díaz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Díaz, Miguel H., author.

Series:

Disruptive cartographers.

Disruptive Cartographers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American theology.

Mysticism in literature.

Trinity in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Queer God de Amor explores the mystery of God and the relationship between divine and human persons. It does so by turning to the sixteenth-century writings of John of the Cross on mystical union with God and the metaphor of sexual relationship that he uses to describe this union. Juan’s mystical theology, which highlights the notion of God as lover and God’s erotic-like relationship with human persons, provides a fitting source for rethinking the Christian doctrine of God, in John’s own words, as “un no sé qué,” “an I know not what.”In critical conversations with contemporary queer theologies, it retrieves from John a preferential option for human sexuality as an experience in daily life that is rich with possibilities for re-sourcing and imagining the Christian doctrine of God. Consistent with other liberating perspectives, it outs God from heteronormative closets and restores human sexuality as a resource for theology. This outing of divine queerness—that is, the ineffability of divine life—helps to align reflections on the mystery of God with the faith experiences of queer Catholics. By engaging Juan de la Cruz through queer Latinx eyes, Miguel Díaz continues the objective of this series to disrupt the cartography of theology latinamente.

Contents:

Cover

Series Editors

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface to the Series

Acknowledgments

A Note on References and Translations

Introduction: Inflamed by God's Queer Love

1. Doing Theology Sanjuanistamente

Juan de la Cruz, a Disruptive Theological Voice

A Starting Point in Ordinary and Daily Experience

Mysticism and Sexuality

Mysticism and Popular Catholicism

Mysticism and Poetry

A Queer "y qué"

2. Disrupting God-Talk

Option for the Bedroom and Human Sexuality

On Knowing God

The Apophatic Way: On the Dark Night of Knowing

The Cataphatic Way of Knowing God

On Naming God as un no sé qué

The un no sé qué God Is Self-Communicating Love

3. God's Self-Communication

God's Self-Communication Conceived Sanjuanistamente

The Recipient of God's Self-Communication

The Effects of God's Self-Communication

On Divine and Human Self-Communicating Love

4. Ecstasis Divine and Human

Making Room for Another

The Fluidity of Divine and Human Persons: Personal and Dynamic

Mystically Performative Fluidity

On Divine and Human Desire

5. Queering the God de Amor

Queering Juan's Mysticism, a Precedent

Queering God-Talk Sanjuanistamente

Queering God's Self-Communication

Queering the Ecstasis Divine and Human

A Journey toward the Queer God de Amor

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Díaz, Miguel H. Queer God de Amor

ISBN:

9781531502508

OCLC:

1341444933