Coming Out and the Bible

Mona West shares her journey with the Bible as a feminist and a lesbian to articulate an approach to reading the Bible that claims it as a text to be trusted by queer people of faith. Drawing parallels with the ancient practice of lectio divina, she develops a method for praying the Scriptures using...

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Subtitles:Articles
Main Author: West, Mona 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. [2020]
In: Interpretation
Year: 2020, Volume: 74, Issue: 3, Pages: 265-274
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Feminist exegesis / Spiritual reading / Prayer / Bible / Spirituality / Queer theology
IxTheo Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
FD Contextual theology
HA Bible
Further subjects:B Spirituality
B Queer
B Lectio Divina
B Feminist
B Bible
B coming out
B Prayer
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Summary:Mona West shares her journey with the Bible as a feminist and a lesbian to articulate an approach to reading the Bible that claims it as a text to be trusted by queer people of faith. Drawing parallels with the ancient practice of lectio divina, she develops a method for praying the Scriptures using the process of coming out.
ISSN:2159-340X
Contains:Enthalten in: Interpretation
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0020964320921964