RT Article
T1 The polyamorous Christ: on the sexual ethics of incarnation
JF Theology & sexuality
VO 31
IS 1/3
SP 1
OP 17
A1 Congdon, David W.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1947477366
AB This article aims to initiate ‘polyamorous theology’ as a field of study. Toward this end, it begins by addressing some of the principal objections, both general and theological, to polyamory, pointing out how theologically thin even the supposedly ‘theological’ objections are. In an effort to find a positive basis for polyamory in Christian theology, some have turned to the doctrine of the trinity, understanding the godhead as a divine ‘throuple.’ This view depends on a social trinitarianism that runs into insurmountable problems. Following Kathryn Tanner, I argue for replacing trinity with Christology as a more fruitful basis for connecting divinity and humanity. While there are many resources for a theology of polyamory in the person of Jesus, the conciliar doctrine of the incarnation provides the most fruitful ground for an ethics of noncompetitive abundance, over against mononormativity’s logic of competitive scarcity.
K1 Kathryn Tanner
K1 noncompetition
K1 two-natures Christology
K1 social trinitarianism
K1 nonmonogamy
K1 Polyamory
DO 10.1080/13558358.2025.2553411