Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech
Jan 2016 · Sold by Beacon Press
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Is the reform we have seen in the wake of the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church meaningful? Have our conversations about the causes of these scandals delved as deeply as they need to? For those questioning the relations between hierarchical power, secrecy, and sexuality in institutional religion, Mark D. Jordan's eloquent meditations on what truths about sexuality need to be told in church-and the difficulty of telling any truths-will be a balm and a revelation.
Is the reform we have seen in the wake of the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church meaningful? Have our conversations about the causes of these scandals delved as deeply as they need to? For those questioning the relations between hierarchical power, secrecy, and sexuality in institutional ...
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About the author
Mark D. Jordan is the author of The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism, among other books. He is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Mark D. Jordan is the author of The Silence of Sodom: Homosexuality in Modern Catholicism, among other books. He is the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Religion at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
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