Table of Contents

1. Methods
1: Adrian Thatcher: Introduction
2: Elizabeth Stuart: The Theological Study of Sexuality
3: Tina Beattie: The Theological Study of Gender
4: Eugene Rogers: Doctrine and Sexuality
2. What Theologians Need to Know
5: Neil Messer: Contributions from Biology
6: Brendan Callaghan: Contributions from Psychology
7: Simon Coleman and Anna Stewart: Contributions from Anthropology
8: Marta Trzebiatowska: Contributions from Sociology
9: Cynthia Nielsen and Michael Barnes Norton: Contributions from Philosophy
10: Patrick S. Cheng: Contributions from Queer Theory
3. Sexuality and Gender in the Biblical World
11: Ken Stone: Marriage and Sexual Relations in the World of the Hebrew Bible
12: William Loader: Marriage and Sexual Relations in the New Testament World
13: Theodore Jennings: Same-sex Relations in the Biblical World
14: Colleen Conway: The Construction of Gender in the New Testament
4. Sexuality and Gender in Christian Tradition
15: Mathew Kuefler: Desire and the Body in the Patristic Period
16: Marilyn McCord Adams: Duns Scotus on the Female Body
17: Ruth Mazo Carras: Reproducing Medieval Christianity
18: Dyan Elliott: Chaste Bodies, Salacious Thoughts
19: John Witte, jr.: Sex and Marriage in the Protestant Tradition, 1500 - 1900
5. Controversies within the Church
20: Linda Hogan: Conflicts within the Roman Catholic Church
21: Jane Shaw: Conflicts within the Anglican Communion
22: William Kay and Stephen Hunt: Pentecostal Churches and Homosexuality
23: Andrew Goddard: Theology and Practice in Evangelical Churches
24: Angelique Harris: Conflicts within the Black Churches
6. Inter-religious Conversations
25: Ronit Irshai: Judaism
26: Asma Barlas: Islam
27: Madakranta Bose: Hinduism
28: Rita Gross: Buddhism
7. Concepts and Issues
29: Pamela Cooper-White: Violence and Justice
30: Margaret Kamitsuka: Pleasure
31: Ola Sigurdson: Desire and Love
32: Mary Jo Iozzio: HIV/ Aids
8. Sexual Theologies for All People
33: Todd Salzmann and Michael Lawler: People Beginning Sexual Experience
34: Thomas Knieps Port Le-Roi: Wives and Husbands
35: Adrian Thatcher: Families
36: Gerard Loughlin: Gay People
37: Lisa Isherwood: Lesbians
38: Margaret Robinson: Bisexual People
39: Susannah Cornwall: Intersex and Transgender People
40: Deborah Creamer: Disabled People
41: Steve Summers: Friends and Friendship

About the Author

Professor Adrian Thatcher is Visiting Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter. He was formerly Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Exeter (2004-2011), and Professor of Applied Theology at the University of St. Mark and John, Plymouth (1995-2004). His publications include Making Sense of Sex (SPCK, 2012), God, Sex, and Gender (Wiley Blackwell, 2011), and The Savage Text: The Uses and Abuses
of the Bible (Wiley Blackwell, 2008).

Reviews

[T]his collection is authoritative and exhaustive ... It has genuinely 'go-to' chapters on queer theory and disabled theology, and skilled essays on Christianity and historical context ... It explores how sex and gender are fundamental to understandings of God, community, and self. I see the Oxford Handbook becoming a standard.
*Rachel Mann, Church Times*

Thatcher has done an amazing job by bringing together many of the leading scholars in the field ... this comprehensive and colourful collection of 41 essays has the potential to reach far beyond theologians as its primarily intended readers and embodies the promise of the significant role theologians can, do, and should play in the study of religion, gender and sexuality.
*Marco Derks, Religion and Gender*

In a review of this length it is hard to do justice to the richness and variety of contributions on a subject that is of abiding interest to humankind.
*Padraig Corkery, INTAMS*

The volume contains some of the best, most articulate advocates
*David Cloutier, Studies in Christian Ethics*

Thatcher has done an outstanding job in shaping this volume of forty-one chapters. It fully deserves to become a well-thumbed resource in every library which aspires to help educate Christian today. ... Hopefully, this excellent volume will go some way to helping the next generation of theologians to live and loveand thinkmore freely.
*Duncan Dormor, Modern Believing*