Queer theology is a significant new development and central to much current teaching and thinking about gender, sexuality and the body.

Controversies in Body Theology will be the third volume in SCM’s Controversies in Contextual Theology series, aimed at drilling down further into the arguments and discussions taking place amongst theologians within contextual theologies,...

Exposes the controversies within key areas of feminist theology eg Christology, ethics, prayer and the after life, the virgin Mary, hermeneutics, the body and to examine whether feminist theology is now bankrupt as both discourse and praxis. It is...

A new collection of short writings by one of the leading radical theologians,which illustrate feminist theology's bold and transformative engagement of its cultural, political, social, and theological contexts.

'Theology and Sexuality' provides a clear overview of the theological debate surrounding sexuality as broadly understood. It gives an outline of the major themes surrounding sexuality in theological perspective, focusing on key thinkers, concepts...

The debate about homosexuality in the Anglican Communion and the wider church, continues to be the subject of controversy and debate in the churches and in the media. A Conversation Waiting to Begin deals with this controversial issue.

No other issue in recent times has proved as potentially divisive for the churches as that of same-sex relationships. At the same time as many countries have been moving towards legal recognition of civil partnerships or same-sex marriage, Christian...

This book aims to relate the human experience of sex to our ultimate knowledge of God. It focuses on how we should treat each other in the light of Jesus' command and that we should love our neighbours as ourselves,

In this groundbreaking book, David Matzko McCarthy challenges those accounts of marriage that treat the interpersonal aspects of marriage apart from economic and political questions, and proposes that marriage and family flourish when part of an...

Here, Ruether uses feminist theology as a tool to expose the male-centred bias of classical theology, examining the ways in which the female has been (uncomfortably) accommodated within the Christian tradition. She then articulates a faith which...