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Radical Love

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ADVANCE PRAISE for Radical Love

“Patrick Cheng’s Radical Love is an excellent introduction to queer theology. It is readable and nuanced, a marvelous teaching resource.”

- Carter Heyward, author of Keep Your Courage: A Radical Christian Feminist Speaks and Professor Emertia of Theology, Episcopal Divinity School

“Thoroughly Christian and thoroughly Queer, Cheng helps readers welcome a theology that leaves no one behind.”

- Chris Glaser, author of As My Own Soul: The Blessing of Same-Gender Marriage and Coming Out as Sacrament

“Patrick Cheng’s Radical Love is not only an excellent introduction to LGBT theology but an important contribution to the discipline of theology and the life of the church. It is a must read for anyone who cares about the health of the church and theology today.”

- James H. Cone, Charles Augustus Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY

“This book is a clear, accessible and exciting analysis of Queer Theology. Cheng perfectly captures both the challenge and the rootedness of Queer Theology.”

- Professor Elizabeth Stuart, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Winchester, UK

“I would characterize Cheng’s notion of ‘radical love’ as ‘wild grace’ with which mainstream theology has yet to wrestle. This is a good text for introducing queer theology to undergraduate and graduate students.”

- Rev. Dr. Bob Shore-Goss, Senior Pastor/Theologian, Metropolitan Community Church in the Valley, North Hollywood, CA

“Radical Love - a love so extreme that it dissolves our existing boundaries! What concept could be more liberating for a culture like ours, where lives are crucified on rigid binaries like male, vs. female, us vs. them, straight vs. queer? Radical Love is an excellent introduction for beginners and an excellent synthesis for more advanced readers.”

- Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, author of Sensuous Spirituality and Omnigender, among many other books.

For Michael

And if I have prophetic powers,and understand all mysteriesand all knowledge,and if I have all faith,so as to remove mountains,but do not have love,I am nothing.

1 Cor. 13:2

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Unless otherwise noted, the Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Typeset by Denise Hoff

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cheng, Patrick S.

Radical love : an introduction to queer theology / by Patrick S. Cheng.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-59627-132-6 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-59627-136-4 (ebook) 1. Queer theology. I. Title.

BT83.65.C44 2011

230.086’64--dc22

2010046872

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