More Than a Monologue : Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church: Inquiry, Th...

by Michael A. Norko

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More Than a Monologue : Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church: Inquiry, Thought, and Expression, Hardcover by Hornbeck, J. Patrick, II (EDT); Norko, Michael A. (EDT), ISBN 0823257622, ISBN-13 9780823257621, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This powerful new collection gives voice to the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer persons with and within the Catholic Church, and promotes much-needed dialogue about faith and sexuality. This volume, like its companion, Voices of Our Times, collects essays drawn from a series of public conferences held in autumn 2011 entitled "More than a Monologue." The series was the fruit of collaboration among four institutions of higher learning: two Catholic universities and two nondenominational divinity schools. The conferences aimed to raise awareness of and advance informed, compassionate, and dialogical conversation about issues of sexual diversity within the Catholic community, as well as in the broader civic worlds that the Catholic Church and Catholic people inhabit. They generated fresh, rich sets of scholarly and reflective contributions that promise to take forward the delicate work of theological-ethical and ecclesial development. Along with Voices of Our Times, this volume captures insights from the conferences and aims to foster what the Jesuit Superior General, Fr. Adolfo Nicolas, has called the "depth of thought and imagination" needed to engage effectively with complex realities, especially

  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Year: 2014
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN: 9780823257621
  • Condition: Fine

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