Jay Emerson Johnson teaches at the Pacific School of Religion and Graduate Theological Union, while serving as associate clergy at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Berkeley, CA. He is the author of Dancing with God: Anglican Christianity and the Practice of Hope and served as the chair of the theology task group for I Will Bless You and You Will Be A Blessing. He lives in Richmond, CA.
“Through personal story, academic acumen, provocative and even
erotic metaphors and images, theologian Jay Emerson Johnson takes
us “over the rainbow” into the realm of queer theology where the
reader encounters a technicolor world of insight, inspiration,
disruption and hope. If you plan to read several theology books
this year, make sure Peculiar Faith is one of them. If you only
plan to read one theology book this year, make sure it is this one.
Here you will meet the ‘socially erotic God [who] yearns above all
else to dance with us.’”
—The Right Reverend Thomas C. Ely, Bishop of Vermont“In Peculiar
Faith, Jay Johnson shows us how the queerly peculiar character of
the Christian faith can set the world on fire. This book is a
wonderful resource for anyone who seeks to transform the Household
of God with the unruly flames of a new Pentecost.”
—Patrick S. Cheng, associate professor, Episcopal Divinity School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and author of Radical Love, Rainbow
Theology, and From Sin to Amazing Grace“Johnson helps his readers
open half-closed eyes and jaded ears to see and hear the queer
sparks flashing and the peculiar voices ringing in the very texts,
traditions, and communities that so many think familiar. Although
he shares some of his journey, this is not the map of a single
pilgrimage, but an atlas charting the many strange lands in which
we wander — even while at home. The goal is not to domesticate that
strangeness, but to infuse the ordinary with the unique gift of
each peculiar incarnation.”
—Tobias Stanislas Haller, BSG, author of Reasonable and Holy:
Engaging Same-Sexuality“Jay Johnson’s Peculiar Faith finds in the
history of Christian faith the keys to revitalizing the future of
Christian faith. Exploring the very traditions that have so often
been deployed to alienate and disenfranchise ‘the
other’—particularly LGBT people—Johnson inspires the reader to
reclaim the transformative power of Christian witness to meet the
challenges of the twenty-first century.”
—The Rev. Susan Russell, Senior Associate, Communications, All
Saints Church, Pasadena, California
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