RT Article
T1 An Ecclesiology of a Queer Kenosis? Risk and Ambivalence at Our Lady, Trondheim, in Light of the Queer Theology on Kenosis of Marcella Althaus-Reid
JF Feminist theology
VO 28
IS 2
SP 216
OP 230
A1 Gunnes, Gyrid Kristine
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1690227079
AB This article argues for the use of the queer kenotic theology of Marcella Althaus-Reid as a theological framework for analysing two stories of ambivalence and risk emerging from an ecclesial practice committed to hospitality. Following Natalie Wigg-Stevenson in envisioning theology not as proclamation but as conversation, the article is an example of what theology can look like when ethnographic material is juxtaposed with systematic theology. The empirical material is created using ethnography as a research strategy in the ecclesial practice of the Lutheran church of Our Lady, Trondheim, Norway. In 2007, this church reopened as an ‘open church' for people who live with different kinds of marginalization. As the sacred medieval space encounters the messy and chaotic lives of people, a powerful displacement of space, practices and bodies occur. The article concludes by discussing how the empirical material feeds back to kenotic theology and queer theology.
K1 practices of hospitality
K1 Ethnography
K1 Sarah Coakley
K1 Kenosis
K1 Queer Theology
K1 Althaus-Reid
DO 10.1177/0966735019889340