"For it was you who formed my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made." - ; Psalm 139:13-14
"As life-affirming moral agents, we have a responsibility to study the ideological hegemony of the past so that we do not remain doomed to the recurring cyclical patterns of hermeneutical distortions in the present—that is, violence against women, condemnation of homosexuality, spiritualizing Scripture to justify capitalism." - Katie Geneva Cannon ; Katie's Canon: Womanism and the Soul of the Black Community (p. 173)
"Radical love, I contend, is a love so extreme that it dissolves our existing boundaries, whether they are boundaries that separate us from other people, that separate us from preconceived notions of sexuality and gender identity, or that separate us from God. It is the thesis of this book that the connections between Christian theology and queer theory are actually much closer than one would think. That is, radical love lies at the heart of both Christian theology and queer theory." - Patrick S. Cheng ; Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology
"The overall movement of the moral logic of Scripture with respect to patriarchy is thus away from roles defined by household responsibilities in the ancient world — including the divisions of honor, status, and worth defined along gender lines — and toward a vision of mutuality and equality in which the procreative enterprise of male and female no longer defines human identity at its core." - Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships ; James V. Brownson
"In everything do unto others as you would have them do to you,; for this is the law and the prophets." - ; Matthew 5:12
Love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. - ; 1 John 4:7
"Like all other theologies, queer theology draws upon at least four sources: (1) scripture, (2) tradition, (3) reason, and (4) experience." . - Patrick S. Cheng ; Radical Love (p. 11)
"Queer theology can be understood as a way of doing theology that is rooted in queer theory and that critiques the binary categories of sexuality (that is, homosexual vs. heterosexual) and gender identity (that is, female vs. male) as socially constructed. In other words, queer theology argues that the discourse of classical Christian theology ultimately requires the erasing of the boundaries of essentialist categories of not only sexuality and gender identity, but also more fundamental boundaries such as life vs. death, and divine vs. human." - Patrick S. Cheng ; Radical Love (p. 10)
"God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. God did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith."
- ; Acts 15:8-9"It is love so extreme that it dissolves existing boundaries that might normally seem fixed." - Patrick S. Cheng ; Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology
"Above all, love each other deeply." - Author of First Peter ; 1 Peter 4:8
"Christian theology is ultimately about radical love . . . that is why Christian theology is, at its core, a queer enterprise." - Patrick S. Cheng ; Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology
"God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean." - Peter ; Acts 10:28
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. - ; 1 John 4:16
No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and God's love is made complete in us. - ; 1 John 4:12
"We do not interpret rightly any single passage of Scripture until we locate the text within this larger fabric of meaning in Scripture as a whole." - Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships ; James V. Brownson
"The same dynamics can be seen in the nineteenth-century debate over slavery and the twentieth-century debate concerning women in leadership in the church. In each of these cases, the Bible was not simply discarded when it didn’t cohere with changes happening in society. Instead, the changes happening in society and across cultures caused people to go back to the biblical texts and read them with fresh eyes — looking more deeply and searching for different underlying values and forms of moral logic that they had not seen so clearly before." - Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships ; James V. Brownson
"Christian theology itself is a fundamentally queer enterprise because it also challenges and deconstructs—through radical love—all kinds of binary categories that on the surface seem fixed and unchangeable (such as life vs. death, or divine vs. human), but that ultimately are fluid and malleable." - Patrick S. Cheng ; Radical Love (pp. 10-11)
"First, queer theology is LGBT people 'talking about God.' Second, queer theology is 'talking about God' in a selfconsciously transgressive manner, especially in terms of challenging societal norms about sexuality and gender. Third, queer theology is 'talk about God' that challenges and deconstructs the natural binary categories of sexual and gender identity." - Patrick S. Cheng ; Radical Love (p. 9)
"To 'queer' something is to turn convention and authority on its head. It is about seeing things in a different light and reclaiming voices and sources that previously had been ignored, silenced, or discarded." - Patrick S. Cheng ; Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology (p. 6)
"The fact that these stories are remembered and included at all within the canonical witness suggests that, already in ancient Israel, patriarchy is not conceived in absolute terms, and more importantly, that there is an implicit recognition in Scripture that God raises up both men and women as leaders for the covenant people, often in contrast to traditional societal expectations." - Bible, Gender, Sexuality: Reframing the Church's Debate on Same-Sex Relationships ; James V. Brownson