Gerard Loughlin

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| alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | University of Wales, Lampeter | Trinity College, Cambridge}}

| thesis_title = Mirroring God's World: A Critique of John Hick's Speculative Theology

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| thesis_year = 1987

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| doctoral_advisors = John Robinson, Don Cupitt, Nicholas Lash, Brian Hebblethwaite

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Gerard Patrick Loughlin{{cite thesis |last=Loughlin |first=Gerard Patrick |year=1980 |title=The Novels of Modernism: The Embodiment of Roman Catholic Modernism in the Literature of Religious Turmoil and Faith at the Turn of the Century, c. 1888–1914 |degree=MA |location=Lampeter, Wales |publisher=University of Wales, Lampeter |oclc=669697113}} is an English Roman Catholic theologian{{cite journal |last=Murphy |first=Francesca |year=2006 |title=The Metaphysical Basis of the Difference between Men and Women |url=https://www.anselm.edu/sites/default/files/Documents/Institute%20of%20SA%20Studies/4.5.3.2e_2Barnwell.pdf |journal=The Saint Anselm Journal |volume=4 |issue=1 |page=1 |issn=1545-3367 |access-date=13 February 2018}} and religious scholar.{{cite book |last=Loughlin |first=Gerard |year=1996 |title=Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology |location=Cambridge, England |publisher=Cambridge University Press |publication-date=1999 |isbn=978-0-521-66515-5}} He is Professor of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham, England.{{cite web |title=Professor Gerard Loughlin, BA MA (Wales) PhD PGCE (Cambridge) |url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/theology.religion/staff/profile/?id=2394 |location=Durham, England |publisher=University of Durham |access-date=13 February 2018}} He is the author of Telling God's Story: Bible Church and Narrative Theology (1996) and Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology (2004).{{cite book |last=Loughlin |first=Gerard |editor1-first=Gerard |editor1-last=Loughlin |year=2004 |title=Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology |location=Malden, Massachusetts |publisher=Blackwell Publishing |doi=10.1002/9780470773352 |isbn=978-0-631-21179-2}}

Biography

A gay Roman Catholic,{{cite web |date=2 July 1999 |title=Angels in Dirty Places |url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/angels-in-dirty-places/147077.article |url-access=limited |work=Times Higher Education |access-date=13 February 2018}} some of Loughlin's work is in the sub-discipline of queer theology. He is the coeditor (with Jon Davies) of Sex These Days: Essays on Theology, Sexuality and Society (Continuum 1997) and editor of Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body (Blackwell, 2007). He serves on the editorial board of Literature and Theology (Oxford University Press) and is co-editor (with Elizabeth Stuart and Kent Brintnall) of Theology and Sexuality (Taylor&Francis).

His master's thesis is titled The Novels of Modernism: The Embodiment of Roman Catholic Modernism in the Literature of Religious Turmoil and Faith at the Turn of the Century, c. 1888–1914. His doctoral thesis, which he wrote under the supervision of John Robinson, is titled Mirroring God's World: A Critique of John Hick's Speculative Theology.{{cite thesis |last=Loughlin |first=Gerard Patrick |year=1986 |title=Mirroring God's World: A Critique of John Hick's Speculative Theology |degree=PhD |location=Cambridge, England |publisher=University of Cambridge |oclc=59749222}}

Published works

Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
(ed. with Jon Davies) Sex These Days: Essays on Theology, Sexuality and Society (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997)
Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
(ed.) Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)