Queer Theology Reading List
General Introduction
Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology, by Patrick Cheng
The Courage to be Queer, by Jeff Hood
The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender, ed. By Adrian Thatcher
Solus Jesus: A Theology of Resistance, by Emily Swann and Ken Wilson
Indecent Theology, by Marcella Althaus-Reid
Queer theology, Queer Identity, and Churches
Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics, by Linn Marie Tonstad
Queer Christianities: Lived Religions in Transgressive Forms, by Talvacchia, Pettinger, and Larrimore
Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality, and Spirit, by Patrick Cheng
From Sin to Amazing Grace: Discovering the Queer Christ, by Patrick Cheng
Outside the Lines: How Embracing Queerness Will Transform Your Faith, by Mihee Kim-Kort
God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude, by Linn Marie Tonstad
This is My Body: Hearing the Theology of Transgender Christians: by Christian Beardsley and Michelle Esther O’Brian
Sex and Uncertainty: Intersex Conditions and Christian Theology, by Susannah Cornwall
Queer theology from the margins
Representations of Homosexuality: Black Liberation Theology, by R. Sneed
Our Lives Matter: A Womanist Queer Theology, by Pamela Lightsey
Living Out Sexuality and Faith: Body Admissions of Malaysian Gay and Bisexual Men, by Joseph N. Goh
A Queering of Black Theology: James Baldwin’s Blues Project and Gospel Prose, by El. Kornegay Jr.
Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and the Arts, by: Adriaan van Klinken
Their Own Receive Them Not: African American Lesbians and Gays in Black Churches, by: Horace L. Griffin
One Coin Found: How God’s Love Stretches to the Margins, by Emmy Kegler
Queer Histories and Ethics
The Invention of Sodomy, by Mark Jordan
The Ethics of Sex, by Mark Jordan
Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body: Gerard Loughlin
Queering Richard Rolle: Mystical Theology and the Hermit in Fourteenth Century England, by Christopher M. Roman
Un/Familiar Theology: Reconceiving Sex, Reproduction, and Generativity, by Susannah Cornwall
Unnatural: Spiritual Resiliency in Queer Christian Women, by Rachel Murr
Just Love: A Framework for Christian Sexual Ethics, by Margaret Farley
