Queer God De Amor
Queer God De Amor
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9781531502478
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 13/09/2022
Width: 14 cm
Height: 21.6 cm
Queer God de Amor explores the mystery of God and the relationship between divine and human persons. It does so by turning to the sixteenth-century writings of John of the Cross on mystical union with God and the metaphor of sexual relationship that he uses to describe this union. Juan's mystical theology, which highlights the notion of God as lover and God's erotic-like relationship with human persons, provides a fitting source for rethinking the Christian doctrine of God, in John's own words, as "un no sé qué," "an I know not what."
In critical conversations with contemporary queer theologies, it retrieves from John a preferential option for human sexuality as an experience in daily life that is rich with possibilities for re-sourcing and imagining the Christian doctrine of God. Consistent with other liberating perspectives, it outs God from heteronormative closets and restores human sexuality as a resource for theology. This outing of divine queerness—that is, the ineffability of divine life—helps to align reflections on the mystery of God with the faith experiences of queer Catholics. By engaging Juan de la Cruz through queer Latinx eyes, Miguel Díaz continues the objective of this series to disrupt the cartography of theology latinamente.
Preface to the Series ix
Carmen M. Nanko-Fernández, Gary Riebe-Estrella, Miguel H. Díaz
Acknowledgments xiii
A Note on References and Translations xvii
Introduction: Inflamed by God's Queer Love xix
1. Doing Theology Sanjuanistamente 1
Juan de la Cruz, a Disruptive Theological Voice 3
A Starting Point in Ordinary and Daily Experience 6
Mysticism and Sexuality 7
Mysticism and Popular Catholicism 9
Mysticism and Poetry 11
A Queer "y qué" 15
2. Disrupting God-Talk 21
Option for the Bedroom and Human Sexuality 23
On Knowing God 30
The Apophatic Way: On the Dark Night of Knowing 34
The Cataphatic Way of Knowing God 38
On Naming God as un no sé qué 44
The un no sé qué God Is Self-Communicating Love 50
3. God's Self-Communication 52
God's Self-Communication Conceived Sanjuanistamente 55
The Recipient of God's Self-Communication 61
The Effects of God's Self-Communication 65
On Divine and Human Self-Communicating Love 67
4. Ecstasis Divine and Human 69
Making Room for Another 71
The Fluidity of Divine and Human Persons: Personal and Dynamic 78
Mystically Performative Fluidity 82
On Divine and Human Desire 85
5. Queering the God de Amor 93
Queering Juan's Mysticism, a Precedent 97
Queering God-Talk Sanjuanistamente 101
Queering God's Self-Communication 106
Queering the Ecstasis Divine and Human 111
A Journey toward the Queer God de Amor 114
Conclusion 117
Index 125
