Being the Body of Christ
Towards a Twenty-first Century Homosexual Theology for the Anglican Church

The book explores the twentieth-century novel from the perspective that it is more concerned with theological debate than we might like to think. It reads five twentieth-century writers who have written the equivalent of sermons.

The book explores the twentieth-century novel from the perspective that it is more concerned with theological debate than we might like to think. It reads five twentieth-century writers who have written the equivalent of sermons, from the perspective of a man who was denied access to the Anglican clergy because of his homosexuality, and finds a parallel tradition of exasperation at the church's obduracy against homosexuals and determination that the church must recognize its homosexual ministers.

Introduction: Homosexuality and Anglicanism
Part 1 Oscar Wilde and his Soul E F Benson: A Sexuality Fit for My Lord One Two Three Four
Part 2 Edward Carpenter: The Greatest Poet England never had Alan Hollinghurst: The Belle Aepoque of a Prodigal Jeanette Winterson: The Powerbook and beyond Blindness and Insight