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Ecclesiological Investigations Unit and Wesleyan and Methodist Studies Unit
Call for Proposals
LGBTQ+ Experience as an Ecclesial Issue (Co-Sponsored Session with the Ecclesiological Investigations Unit, the Queer Studies Unit, and Wesleyan and Methodist Studies Unit)
The reality of LGBTQ+ experience is a complex phenomenon among churches on local, regional, national, and global levels, within Methodist and Wesleyan communities as well as other denominations and church families. That complexity has impacted the pastoral reality of churches and their self-understanding on all these levels. We invite papers that consider how LGBTQ+ people and their experiences impact churches' experiences and ecclesiologies, particularly in Wesleyan and holiness traditions but also in other churches and traditions. How are LGBTQ+ Christians changing the way we think about the church? How are LGBTQ+ experiences challenging local churches, denominational bodies, and ecumenical relationships? When it comes to tensions and even schisms, what are the competing rationales and forms of ethical discernment underlying opposing visions? What are the differing hermeneutical, historical, narrative, scriptural, traditional, social, and cultural dimensions at work? Are divisions inevitable or are new forms of understanding yet possible? In what ways have LGBTQ+ Christians functioned as a gift, an opportunity, or a challenge to envision or understand the church? What resources in Methodist and Wesleyan theology and ecclesiology, and those of other communities, might assist churches in their responses to LGBTQ+ experiences?
Sponsors
Chairs
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Edgardo Colon-Emeric, Duke University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Brian Flanagan, Marymount University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Vladimir Latinovic, University of Tübingen1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Cindy K. Wesley, University of Northern Colorado1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
Steering Committee Members
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Sandra Arenas, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Jung Choi, North Carolina Wesleyan College1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Dennis Doyle, University of Dayton1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Dion Forster, Stellenbosch University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Miriam Haar, Lutheran World Federation1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Geordan Hammond, Nazarene Theological College1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Cristina Lledo Gomez, BBI-The Australian Institute for Theological Education1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Scott MacDougall, Church Divinity School of the Pacific1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Laceye Warner, Duke University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Edward Wimberly, Interdenominational Theological Center1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025