[T]his collection is authoritative and exhaustive ... It has genuinely 'go-to' chapters on queer theory and disabled theology, and skilled essays on Christianity and historical context ... It explores how sex and gender are fundamental to understandings of God, community, and self. I see the IOxford Handbook becoming a standard. * Rachel Mann, Church Times * Thatcher has done an amazing job by bringing together many of the leading scholars in the field ... this comprehensive and colourful collection of 41 essays has the potential to reach far beyond theologians as its primarily intended readers and embodies the promise of the significant role theologians can, do, and should play in the study of religion, gender and sexuality. * Marco Derks, Religion and Gender * In a review of this length it is hard to do justice to the richness and variety of contributions on a subject that is of abiding interest to humankind. * Padraig Corkery, INTAMS * The volume contains some of the best, most articulate advocates * David Cloutier, Studies in Christian Ethics * Thatcher has done an outstanding job in shaping this volume of forty-one chapters. It fully deserves to become a well-thumbed resource in every library which aspires to help educate Christian today. ... Hopefully, this excellent volume will go some way to helping the next generation of theologians to live and loveand thinkmore freely. * Duncan Dormor, Modern Believing *