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And God Becomes Chaos
Incoherency in Indecent Theology
Senior Integrative Project
Lindsey Myrick
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Is incoherency the only
legitimately liberating
theological methodology?
RESEARCH QUESTION
Although incoherency is necessary for upsetting internalized effects of
ideology, it cannot facilitate the construction of a less
oppressive reality. Liberation theology can and should be
coherent to some extent.
CLAIM
argued that liberation theology has failed to
sufficiently address sexuality, both the lived sexuality of
the poor and heterosexuality’s relationship
to knowledge production
On theologian Marcella Althaus-Red
“For there are many longings amongst the nomadic people of God which go frustrated or even unacknowledged: but could the same be said about God’s own heart?”
Decency
promotes binarism, imperialism, and institutionalized stability
Indecency subversion of this decency through the inclusion of indecent topics and
ways of knowing
IS built upon constructed realities (norms) that undergird the act of
theologizing
coherency
- Monogamy is the natural and ideal state of romantic relationships -
“Theology’s permanent search for coherency is only an expression of hegemonizing objectives.”
“From the sexual experiences of Queer people who experience love in casual and in friendship relationships, we may learn that God is a God of moments and that moments can be different but the momentary is divine.”
On INCOHERENCY
“The monopolistic production of God and Jesus has been done with such authority and for such a long time, that it’s interpellative strength is difficult to confront.”
The process by which individuals are persuaded by ideology to occupy a
subject position that has been prepared for them
“The very structure of [marginalized communities] thought has been conditioned by the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them, to be men is to be oppressors. This is their model of humanity.”
Paolo Freire
“Sexual ideologization tends to be pervasive...within Lesbian and Gay Theologies. How? By assuming a fixed sexual identity in non-heterosexual people. Why? Because a heterosexual ideology, as a central discourse of authority, extends its perspective of sexuality and relationships to non-heterosexual identity.”
PART HOMO, PART HETERO
Historical dimensions of a given reality that may have been normalized and therefore made invisible
Limit Situations
Limit act Actions that negate and overcome those limit
situations, refusing to accept the inevitability of the state of affairs
“And God becomes Chaos: the smell of our bodies when making love, our fluid and excretions, the hardening of muscles and the erectness of nipples.”
On resistance versus transformation
“God the white upper-class woman who has made of us passive supporters of a patriarchal system.”
On loving relationships
“Norms materialize human subjectivity…the repetition or reiteration of normatively requires practices makes on into a ‘person’ which is why those who refuse such practices can also be denied ‘personhood.’”
Janet Jakobsen
Norms
normativity
Network of Norms
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“We were in a barn with all the lights out and a
nice warm heater; it was lovely. So, she was settling
in for the night, and I went to the stall and I just
sat in the corner. I let her come to me, and that’s one
of the things I am very adamant about: I never use a
halter or any kind of restraint. So, she chooses to
come with me, and I leave her food and she puts her
head on my chest and we snuggle and I whisper sweet
nothings in her ear and rub her cheeks — what she
likes. By this stage, she knows I’ll rub her thighs. She
really loves the area between the back of her legs
touched. So, she turned around and she actually
backed into me while I’m sitting down. I slip my hands
up a little further up and play with her genitals.”
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