What’s Queer about the Eucharist? A Sodomitical Theological Critique of Louis-Marie Chauvet’s Eucharistic Theology

May, Jacob

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What’s Queer about the Eucharist? A Sodomitical Theological Critique of Louis-Marie Chauvet’s Eucharistic Theology

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May, Jacob. What’s Queer About the Eucharist? A Sodomitical Theological Critique of Louis-marie Chauvet’s Eucharistic Theology. ctschicago.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/4d344f83-51fc-4346-9cc0-4f9ff8a2833c.

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M. Jacob. What’s Queer about the Eucharist? A Sodomitical Theological Critique of Louis-Marie Chauvet’s Eucharistic Theology. https://ctschicago.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/4d344f83-51fc-4346-9cc0-4f9ff8a2833c

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May, Jacob. What’s Queer about the Eucharist? A Sodomitical Theological Critique of Louis-Marie Chauvet’s Eucharistic Theology. https://ctschicago.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/4d344f83-51fc-4346-9cc0-4f9ff8a2833c.

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Linn Tonstad’s project of sodomitical theology incorporates the anti-social queer theory of Lee Edelman and the queer theology of Marcella Althaus-Reid to underscore the universality of human sinfulness and advocate for solidarity with the marginalized. Louis-Marie Chauvet developed a Eucharistic theology informed by Martin Heidegger’s linguistic turn in philosophy and Jacques Lacan’s psychoanalysis. Chauvet describes the Eucharist as a form of symbolic exchange and central to the creation of Christian identity. This thesis demonstrates compatibility between Chauvet and sodomitical theology on the effects of sin and concern for the other, yet a queer critique of Chauvet’s Eucharistic theology identifies elided patriarchal and heterosexist dynamics in his account and inattention to the “structural queer.” Critiques of Tonstad’s theology are engaged, and suggestions for future research are provided.

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