And they go into debt for this? I’ll just remind them that this world and universe it set to be destroyed by fire, but God’s Word is eternal and will outlive them. As such, you’re crossing a line you might not be able to come back from. But in a way, this sums up human intellectualism for what it really is, trash. Normally I take out other story links in the articles, but I left in these in case you want to see what else they’re up to at university.
Class topics could include ‘questions of sexuality, gender identity, and queer hermeneutics, queer time, queer affect, and queer pleasure in the Bible.’
The class professor is the author of a book alleging that ‘prophetic masculinity is queer masculinity.’
By Justin Choi
The University of Richmond in Virginia offers a “Queer Bible” religious course.
The class “brings together queer theory, sexuality, and the Bible in order to explore what it means to ‘queer’ the Bible and biblical interpretations.”
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Class readings “include both biblical texts and queer and trans scholarship on the Bible. Topics may include questions of sexuality, gender identity, and queer hermeneutics, queer time, queer affect, and queer pleasure in the Bible.”
The class is taught by Professor Rhiannon Graybill, a Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Advisory Board Member at the university.
Graybill is also the author of “Are We Not Men?: Unstable Masculinity in the Hebrew Prophets,” a book that “puts the biblical prophets in conversation with contemporary sources such as poetry, film, and gender theory to demonstrate that prophetic masculinity is queer masculinity.”
Other colleges have had courses and events with similar themes.
The University of Central Florida, for example, is hosting a “Queer Christian Fellowship” that will meet until April 24 and that allows students to participate in “discussion groups around the topic ‘Queer Interpretation of Scripture.’”
Wellesley College in Massachusetts also has a “Queer Bible” course in which students examine “queer readings of the biblical canon and the canon of contemporary queer theory.”
Campus Reform has reached out to the University of Richmond and the university’s Religious Studies department for comment. This article will be updated accordingly.