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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.

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.

"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".

"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).

"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).

"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".

"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".

"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".

"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".

"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".

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

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

"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

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