Outputs (77)

Is orthodoxy radical? Revisiting G. K. Chesterton and John Robinson (2023)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2023). Is orthodoxy radical? Revisiting G. K. Chesterton and John Robinson. Theology, 126(6), 407-414. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571x231209466

That orthodoxy can be radical might be thought a rallying cry from the 1990s. But in fact it was already being made in the 1960s by John Robinson, and before him by G. K. Chesterton, at the start of the twentieth century. This tradition of radical or... Read More about Is orthodoxy radical? Revisiting G. K. Chesterton and John Robinson.

The Centurion's Servant (2022)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2022). The Centurion's Servant

Them and Us: A Reply to Teofilo Pugeda (2022)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2022). Them and Us: A Reply to Teofilo Pugeda. Theology, 125(2), 97-100

A response to the article ‘A reply to Gerard Loughlin’s “Catholic homophobia”’ by Teofilo Pugeda highlighting the dichotomy between the welcome and rejection of LGBT people within the Catholic Church.

"Tracts, Scriptures and 'Storied Mysteries': The Bible in the Oxford Movement" (2021)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (in press). "Tracts, Scriptures and 'Storied Mysteries': The Bible in the Oxford Movement". In E. Jay (Ed.), Bible and Literature: The Victorian Period. Bloomsbury

"Silent Witness: On Listening but not Hearing in the Church of England" (2019)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2019). "Silent Witness: On Listening but not Hearing in the Church of England"

"Pity and Pardon in Scorsese’s Palimpsest, Bringing Out the Dead" (2019)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2019). "Pity and Pardon in Scorsese’s Palimpsest, Bringing Out the Dead". In C. Barnett, & C. Ellison (Eds.), Scorsese as religion (196-230). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004411401_011

"Being Creature, Becoming Human: Contesting Oliver O'Donovan on Transgender, Identity and the Body" (2018)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2018). "Being Creature, Becoming Human: Contesting Oliver O'Donovan on Transgender, Identity and the Body"

For Oliver O'Donovan, the 'transsexual' ignores their true form, willing to become the sex they are not. But to be gendered is to be caught up into becoming - not a strange idea for Christian theology.

"Gender Ideology: For a ‘Third Sex’ Without Reserve" (2018)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2018). "Gender Ideology: For a ‘Third Sex’ Without Reserve". Studies in Christian Ethics, 31(4), 471-482. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946818793074

‘Gender ideology’ is a term used by many, but especially the Vatican, to chastise the view that sexual difference is more than just male and female, sexuality more than desire of the opposite. Each of the three books discussed in this article defends... Read More about "Gender Ideology: For a ‘Third Sex’ Without Reserve".

"Visible and Invisible: George Tyrrell and Christ's Bodies" (2018)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2018). "Visible and Invisible: George Tyrrell and Christ's Bodies". New Blackfriars, 99(1084), 729-739. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12402

Starting with the laying to rest of George Tyrrell’s body in an Anglican grave, outside the bounds of the Catholic Church, this article considers how Tyrrell could yet understood himself to be within the Church, within the body of Christ. Tyrrell dev... Read More about "Visible and Invisible: George Tyrrell and Christ's Bodies".

"Catholic Homophobia" (2018)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2018). "Catholic Homophobia". Theology, 121(3), 188-196. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571x17749147

Understanding homophobia as a discursively constituted antipathy, this article argues that the culture of the Catholic Church – as constituted through the Roman magisterium – can be understood as fundamentally homophobic, and in its teaching not just... Read More about "Catholic Homophobia".

"Coming Alongside" https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/god-and-difference/#gerard-loughlin (2017)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2017). "Coming Alongside" https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/god-and-difference/#gerard-loughlin

Review article on Linn Marie Tonstad, God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude (New York and London: Routledge, 2016).

"The University" (2017)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2017). "The University". In E. B. D. Whistler (Ed.), The Edinburgh critical history of nineteenth-century Christian theology (64-84). Edinburgh University Press

Review of Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown, edited by Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) (2016)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2016). Review of Theology, Aesthetics, and Culture: Responses to the Work of David Brown, edited by Robert MacSwain and Taylor Worley (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). The Journal of Theological Studies, 67(1), 410-416. https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flw013

"Disordered Bodies and the Body of Christ" (2016)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2016). "Disordered Bodies and the Body of Christ". In S. Wendel, & A. Nutt (Eds.), Reading the Body of Christ: Eine geschlechtertheologische Relecture (57-68). Ferdinand Schöningh

"Gay Affections" (2015)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2015). "Gay Affections". In A. Thatcher (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality and Gender (608-623.). Oxford University Press

The Literal Sense and the Senses of Scripture (2015)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2015). The Literal Sense and the Senses of Scripture. In J. Fodor, & M. Higton (Eds.), The Routledge companion to the practice of Christian Theology (174-190). Routledge

Review of Catherine Pickstock, Repetition and Identity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) (2015)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2015). Review of Catherine Pickstock, Repetition and Identity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). Reviews in Religion and Theology, 22(3), 260-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/rirt.12534

"(Homosexual) Bodies and the Image of God" (2015)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2015). "(Homosexual) Bodies and the Image of God". In A. D. Ornella (Ed.), Making Humans: Religious, Technological and Aesthetic Perspectives (3-20). Inter-Disciplinary Press

"God is Not Everything" and "God is Not Everything II" (2014)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2014). "God is Not Everything" and "God is Not Everything II"

Review article on Tina Beattie, Theology after Postmodernity: Divining the Void - A Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

"God is Not Everything" (2014)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2014). "God is Not Everything"

Review article on Tina Beattie, Theology after Postmodernity: Divining the Void - A Lacanian Reading of Thomas Aquinas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013).

"Making it Plain: Austin Farrer and the Inspiration of Scripture" (2013)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2013). "Making it Plain: Austin Farrer and the Inspiration of Scripture". In R. MacSwain (Ed.), Scripture, Metaphysics, and Poetry: Austin Farrer’s The Glass of Vision with Critical Commentary (167-180). Ashgate Publishing

"Nuptial Mysteries" (2012)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2012). "Nuptial Mysteries". In S. *Oliver, K. *Kilby, & T. O'Loughlin (Eds.), Faithful reading : new essays in Theology in honour of Fergus Kerr, OP (173-192). T. & T. Clark

"Bible and Film: Suffering and Special Effects" (2012)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2012). "Bible and Film: Suffering and Special Effects". Modern Believing, 53(2), 122-130. https://doi.org/10.3828/mb.53.2.122

"Nouvelle Théologie: A Return to Modernism?" (2011)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2011). "Nouvelle Théologie: A Return to Modernism?". In G. Flynn, & P. D. Murray (Eds.), Ressourcement : a movement for renewal in twentieth-century Catholic theology (36-50). Oxford University Press

"The Wonder of Newman's Education" (2011)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2011). "The Wonder of Newman's Education". New Blackfriars, 92(1038), 224-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-2005.2010.01412.x

This article examines the place of wonder in Newman's account of university education. It pays particular attention to Newman's ‘Rise and Progress of Universities’ (1872) rather than to his better known The Idea of a University (1873). The article fi... Read More about "The Wonder of Newman's Education".

"Newman and the Question of University Theology" (2010)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2010). "Newman and the Question of University Theology"

"Essere creatura, diventare umano: una critica a Oliver O'Donovan", translated by Giovanni Pernigotto (2010)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2010). "Essere creatura, diventare umano: una critica a Oliver O'Donovan", translated by Giovanni Pernigotto. In A. Autiero, & S. Knauss (Eds.), L’enigma corporeità: sessualità e religione (89-109). EDB

"Catholic Modernism" (2010)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2010). "Catholic Modernism". In D. Fergusson (Ed.), The Blackwell companion to nineteenth-century theology (486-508). Wiley

"The Long Take: Messianic Time in Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia" (2009)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2009). "The Long Take: Messianic Time in Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia". Journal for Cultural Research, 13(3-4), 365-379. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797580903244753

This article invokes Giorgio Agamben's discussion of messianic time in his 2005 book The Time That Remains in order to explore Andrei Tarkovsky's late film, Nostalghia (1983). Agamben is wandering in a foreign land, as also Tarkovsky; Agamben in Chri... Read More about "The Long Take: Messianic Time in Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia".

"Theology in the University" (2009)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2009). "Theology in the University". In I. Ker, & T. Merrigan (Eds.), The Cambridge companion to John Henry Newman (221-240). Cambridge University Press

"The Madonna's Tear: Biblical Images in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky" (2008)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2008). "The Madonna's Tear: Biblical Images in the Films of Andrei Tarkovsky". In G. Hallbäck, & A. Hvitamar (Eds.), Recent Releases:The Bible in Contemporary Cinema (81-92). Sheffield Phoenix Press

"Tarkovsky's Trees" (2008)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2008). "Tarkovsky's Trees". In N. Dunne (Ed.), Tarkovsky (81-95, 438-439). Black Dog Publishing

"What is Queer? Theology after Identity" (2008)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2008). "What is Queer? Theology after Identity". Theology & Sexuality, 14(2), 143-152. https://doi.org/10.1177/1355835807087376

This article discusses various uses of ‘queer’ in theology, from the queerness of theology itself to queer as insult, and as insult turned. But it is chiefly concerned with queer as what David Halperin calls an ‘identity without an essence’. As such... Read More about "What is Queer? Theology after Identity".

"Idol Bodies" (2007)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2007). "Idol Bodies". In S. C. Barton (Ed.), Idolatry: False Worship in the Bible, Early Judaism and Christianity (267-286). T&T Clark

"Within the image: Film as Icon" (2007)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2007). "Within the image: Film as Icon". In R. K. Johnston (Ed.), Reframing Theology and Film: New Focus for an Emerging Discipline (287-303). Baker Academic

"Video Divina: Viewing Tarkovsky" (2007)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2007). "Video Divina: Viewing Tarkovsky". In S. Knauss, & A. D. Ornella (Eds.), Reconfigurations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Religion in a Post-Secuar Society (179-195). Lit

Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body. (2007)
Book
Loughlin, G. (Ed.). (2007). Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body. Blackwell

Queer Theology makes an important contribution to public debate about Christianity and sex. This remarkable collection of essays reconceptualizes the body and its desires, enlarging the meaning of sexuality for the good of the churches. Written by so... Read More about Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body..

"Not the Marrying Kind: Notes on an Ecclesial Comedy" (2007)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2007). "Not the Marrying Kind: Notes on an Ecclesial Comedy". In P. Middleton (Ed.), The God of Love and Human Dignity: Essays in Honour of George Newlands (139-153). T&T Clark

"Rhetoric and Rhapsody: A Response to David Bentley Hart's The Beauty of the Infinite" (2007)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2007). "Rhetoric and Rhapsody: A Response to David Bentley Hart's The Beauty of the Infinite". New Blackfriars, 88(1017), 600-609. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1741-2005.2007.00173.x

I offer a brief outline of The Beauty of the Infinite, pointing up its similarities with and differences from John Milbank's Theology and Social Theory (1990), and the violence of its rhetoric. I then take issue with Hart's reading of Nicholas Lash o... Read More about "Rhetoric and Rhapsody: A Response to David Bentley Hart's The Beauty of the Infinite".

"Found in Translation : Ovid, David Malouf and the Werewolf" (2007)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2007). "Found in Translation : Ovid, David Malouf and the Werewolf". Literature and Theology, 21(2), 113-130. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frm012

David Malouf, in his novel An Imaginary Life (1978), explores the nature of human identity through his narrator, the Roman poet Ovid, who himself was a noted fabulist of identity and its instabilities. It would seem that for both writers, ancient and... Read More about "Found in Translation : Ovid, David Malouf and the Werewolf".

"Bildens svindel som kroppens djup" (2006)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2006). "Bildens svindel som kroppens djup". In O. Sigurdeson, & J. Svenungsson (Eds.), Postmodern Teologi (222-236). Verbum

"Omphalos" (2006)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2006). "Omphalos". In G. Loughlin (Ed.), Queer theology : rethinking the western body (115-127). Blackwell

"The Body" (2006)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2006). "The Body". In J. F. Sawyer (Ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and Culture (381-395). Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470997000.ch23

"Postmodern Scripture" (2006)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2006). "Postmodern Scripture". In J. S. Holcomb (Ed.), Christian theologies of scripture : a comparative introduction (300-322). NYU Press

This essay explores what happens to such ideas as scriptural inspiration and truth in a postmodern context. While postmodernism insists on the textuality of the world, it must also allow for what comes to us from beyond and between the texts we inhab... Read More about "Postmodern Scripture".

"Cinéma Divinité: A Theological Introduction" (2005)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2005). "Cinéma Divinité: A Theological Introduction". In E. S. Christianson, P. Francis, & W. R. Telford (Eds.), Cinéma divinité: Theology and the Bible in Film (1-12). SCM Press

"Biblical Bodies" (2005)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2005). "Biblical Bodies". Theology & Sexuality, 12(1), 9-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1355835805057784

The Bible is like a body. It is a whole composed of many parts, in the pages of which we find other bodies, identities which even now haunt the Western imagination. But the chief focus of this essay is the biblical body of God and its sex. It is ofte... Read More about "Biblical Bodies".

"The University Without Question: John Henry Newman and Jacques Derrida on Faith in the University" (2004)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2004). "The University Without Question: John Henry Newman and Jacques Derrida on Faith in the University". In J. Astley, L. Francis, J. Sullivan, & A. Walker (Eds.), The Idea of a Christian University: Essays on Theology and Higher Education (113-131, 302-307). Paternoster Press

"The body in the Text: Realism and Non-realism, Revelation and Writing-experience" (2004)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2004). "The body in the Text: Realism and Non-realism, Revelation and Writing-experience". In G. Hyman (Ed.), New directions in philosophical theology : essays in honour of Don Cupitt (147-160). Ashgate Publishing

"Sex after Natural Law" (2004)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2004). "Sex after Natural Law". In M. Althaus-Reid, & L. Isherwood (Eds.), The Sexual Theologian: Essays on Sex, God and Politics (86-98). Continuum

"Gathered at the Altar: Homosexuals and Human Rights" (2004)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2004). "Gathered at the Altar: Homosexuals and Human Rights". Theology & Sexuality, 10(2), 73-82. https://doi.org/10.1177/135583580401000207

The Catholic Church affirms a double standard regarding homosexuals inside and outside the Church. As evidenced in the teaching of the Bishops' Conference for England and Wales, the (employment) rights of homosexuals are to be defended outside the Ch... Read More about "Gathered at the Altar: Homosexuals and Human Rights".

"Pauline Conversations: Re-reading Romans 1 in Christ" (2004)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2004). "Pauline Conversations: Re-reading Romans 1 in Christ". Theology & Sexuality, 11(1), 72-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/135583580401100107

One of the most insidious forms of Christian idolatry is the fetishizing of biblical texts, as when the meaning of Romans 1 is (wrongly) stabilized as condemning homosexual love-making. With Karl Barth we can learn how to converse with Paul in Christ... Read More about "Pauline Conversations: Re-reading Romans 1 in Christ".

Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology (2003)
Book
Loughlin, G. (2003). Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology. Blackwell

The following text is taken from the publisher's website. "Gerard Loughlin is one of the leading theologians working at the interface between religion and contemporary culture. In this exceptional work, he uses cinema and the films it shows to think... Read More about Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology.

"Sex After Natural Law" (2003)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2003). "Sex After Natural Law". Studies in Christian Ethics, 16(1), 14-28. https://doi.org/10.1177/095394680301600102

The Church is a sexed body, in both carnal and symbolic terms. The Church has sex, but being the Church it does so in a radically creative way. This article explores the contrast between sex as imagined by the Church and as imagined by evolutionary p... Read More about "Sex After Natural Law".

"Breezes: Religious Images in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (2002)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2002). "Breezes: Religious Images in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction". Louvain Studies, 27, 265-279

"Time" (2000)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (2000). "Time". In A. Hastings (Ed.), The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought (707b-709a). Oxford University Press

"Erotics: God's Sex" (1999)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (1999). "Erotics: God's Sex". In J. Milbank, C. Pickstock, & G. Ward (Eds.), Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (143-162). Routledge

"Refiguring Masculinity in Christ" (1998)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (1998). "Refiguring Masculinity in Christ". In M. A. Hayes, W. Porter, & D. Tombs (Eds.), Religion and Sexuality (405-414). Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press

"Baptismal Fluid" (1998)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1998). "Baptismal Fluid". Scottish Journal of Theology, 51(3), 261-270

"Sexing the Trinity" (1998)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1998). "Sexing the Trinity". New Blackfriars, 79, 18-25

"Ending Sex" (1997)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (1997). "Ending Sex". In J. Davies, & G. Loughlin (Eds.), Sex These Days: Essays on Theology, Sexuality and Society (205-218). Sheffield Academic Press

Sex These Days: Essays on Theology, Sexuality and Society. (1997)
Book
Loughlin, G., & Davies, J. (Eds.). (1997). Sex These Days: Essays on Theology, Sexuality and Society. Sheffield Academic Press

"The Basis and Authority of Christian Doctrine" (1997)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (1997). "The Basis and Authority of Christian Doctrine". In C. Gunton (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (41-64). Cambridge University Press

"René Girard (b.1923): Introduction" (1997)
Book Chapter
Loughlin, G. (1997). "René Girard (b.1923): Introduction". In G. Ward (Ed.), The Postmodern God: A Theological Reader (96-104). Blackwell

"Jean Baudrillard" (1996)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1996). "Jean Baudrillard"

Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology. (1996)
Book
Loughlin, G. (1996). Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology. Cambridge University Press

"Holy texts of deception: Christian Gnosticism and the Writings of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh" (1995)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1995). "Holy texts of deception: Christian Gnosticism and the Writings of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh". New Blackfriars, 76, 293-305

"Jacques Derrida" (1995)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1995). "Jacques Derrida"

"Following to the Letter: The Literal Use of Scripture" (1995)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1995). "Following to the Letter: The Literal Use of Scripture". Literature and Theology, 9, 370-382

"Other Discourses" (1994)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1994). "Other Discourses". New Blackfriars, 75, 18-31

"Writing the Trinity" (1994)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1994). "Writing the Trinity". Theology, 97, 82-89

"Michel Foucault" (1993)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1993). "Michel Foucault"

"Christianity at the End of the Story or the Return of the Master Narrative" (1992)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1992). "Christianity at the End of the Story or the Return of the Master Narrative". Modern Theology, 8, 365-384

"Making a Better World: Revisiting David Hume with Ian Markham" (1992)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1992). "Making a Better World: Revisiting David Hume with Ian Markham". Modern Theology, 8, 297-303

"Over the Ashes" (1992)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1992). "Over the Ashes". New Blackfriars, 73, 605-613

"Thinking of that than which Nothing Greater can be Thought" (1991)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1991). "Thinking of that than which Nothing Greater can be Thought". New Blackfriars, 72, 387-391

"Prefacing Pluralism: John Hick and the Mastery of Religion" (1990)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (1990). "Prefacing Pluralism: John Hick and the Mastery of Religion". Modern Theology, 7, 29-55

Mirroring God’s World: A Critique of John Hick’s Speculative Theology (1987)
Thesis
Loughlin, G. (1987). Mirroring God’s World: A Critique of John Hick’s Speculative Theology. (Thesis). [Awarding Organisation: Unknown]. Retrieved from https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1642075