Queer Youth Suicide as Disruptive Revelation of God
This work positions queer youth suicide as deviant aperture into scandal within divine life through an 'indecenting' of kenotic agency located in the Incarnation itself. Refuting a heteronormative gaze that defines queer youth suicide as an expression of pathology, I present a disruptive c...
| Published in: | Feminist theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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Feminist theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society NBB Doctrine of Revelation NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
indecenting
B Incarnation B SUICIDE victims B Queer B Deicide B Youth suicide B God B Martyrdom B ALTHAUS-Reid, Marcella B Althaus-Reid |
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| Summary: | This work positions queer youth suicide as deviant aperture into scandal within divine life through an 'indecenting' of kenotic agency located in the Incarnation itself. Refuting a heteronormative gaze that defines queer youth suicide as an expression of pathology, I present a disruptive coming out of God who redeems through scandal by posing these suicides as deaths for others. Drawing from two liberation theologians, I offer a construct of martyrdom within historical contexts of an excess of death that is capable of carrying the weight of their agency within a destructive heteronormative reality. Applying Althaus-Reid's method of 'indecenting' within their last deviant act, both vitiated and vindicated in this kenotic agency of God, queer youth suicide becomes a preferred vehicle of divine delight and reclamation. Although disruptive, this divine eloquence spills out everywhere, cracking open a theological praxis where no one ever falls outside of God, especially in death. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0966735018756251 |