Jonathan’s Loves, David’s Laments: Gay Theology, Musical - download pdf or read online

Jonathan's Loves, David's Laments makes use of early sleek musical interpretations of David's Lament over Saul and Jonathan to deepen the historicist foundations of latest feminist and homosexual relational theologies. After laying out how homosexual theologian Gary David Comstock connects the tale of David and Jonathan to the theology of lesbian theologian Carter Heyward, the argument interrogates either theological and exegetical difficulties in making these connections, which come with contradictory theological stances in regards to modernity and historical past in addition to the indeterminacy of the biblical textual content. Early smooth musical interpretations of the textual content permit for a double movement of attractive the texts via a sensual medium, hence reinforcing queer probabilities for meaning-making from the biblical textual content, and staying attuned to the truth that the background of interpretation reinforces the indeterminacy of the textual content, therefore retaining queer interpretations conscious of the relativizing functionality of old difference.

"Providing a veritable ceremonial dinner for discerning readers, Dirk von der Horst deftly and masterfully weaves theological insights and musicological research, biblical exegesis and cultural critique, historicizing viewpoint and liberative summons in his tantalizing and immensely pleasant first book. Jonathan's Loves, David's Laments draws from each one of those techniques yet transcends all of them, beckoning readers to pursue promising and audacious new instructions for relational, queer theology." 
--Brent A. R. Hege, Butler college, Indianapolis, Indiana

"This e-book is an interdisciplinary journey de strength. Van der Horst mines theology, musicology, historicist vs. essentialist debates over biblical that means and sexual identification, and the dialogical dynamics of musical event to explain how musical afterlives of the David-Jonathan tale inhabit 'irrefutable' areas for homoerotic wish and queer id in the biblical textual content. those musico-aesthetic riches redefine biblical authority and should let theologians and activists to set up 'Jonathan enjoyed David' with much more highbrow integrity."
--Heidi Epstein, affiliate Professor, division of faith and tradition, St. Thomas extra university, collage of Saskatchewan

Dirk von der Horst is teacher of spiritual experiences at Mount St. Mary's college, la. he's a coeditor of Voices of Feminist Liberation: Writings in occasion of Rosemary Radford Ruether (2012).