Research Catalog

Title

Gay and Catholic : accepting my sexuality, finding community, living my faith / Eve Tushnet.

Author

Tushnet, Eve.

Publication

Notre Dame, Indiana : Ave Maria Press, [2014]

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Details

Description

215 pages; 22 cm

Summary

In this first book from an openly lesbian and celibate Catholic, widely published writer and blogger Eve Tushnet recounts her spiritual and intellectual journey from liberal atheism to faithful Catholicism and shows how gay Catholics can love and be loved while adhering to Church teaching. Eve Tushnet was among the unlikeliest of converts. The only child of two atheist academics, Tushnet was a typical Yale undergraduate until the day she went out to poke fun at a gathering of philosophical debaters, who happened also to be Catholic. Instead of enjoying mocking what she termed the "zoo animals," she found herself engaged in intellectual conversation with them and, in a move that surprised even her, she soon converted to Catholicism. Already self-identifying as a lesbian, Tushnet searched for a third way in the seeming two-option system available to gay Catholics: reject Church teaching on homosexuality or reject the truth of your sexuality. Gay and Catholic is the fruit of Tushnet's searching: what she learned in studying Christian history and theology and her articulation of how gay Catholics can pour their love and need for connection into friendships, community, service, and artistic creation.

Subjects

• Autobiographies
• Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
• Catholic gays > Religious life
• Lesbians > Religious life

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies
• Autobiographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Part 1: Coming Out Catholic. A Charmed Life -- The Botany Club -- Evidence for the Prosecution -- Lather, Rinse, Repent -- Three Kinds of Diversity in Gay Christian Lives -- Part 2: You Are Called to Love. What Vocation Is and Is Not -- Friendship in Theology and History -- Spiritual Friendship Today and Tomorrow -- From Friends to Family -- The Church as Home -- Service and Solidarity -- Challenges Within Your Vocation -- Conclusion: The Two Crowns -- Appendix 1: Further Resources ; Appendix 2: Frequently Asked Questions ; Appendix 3: Making the Church a Place of Welcome for Same-Sex Attracted Christians.

ISBN

• 9781594715426 (pbk.)
• 1594715424 (pbk.)
• 9781594715433 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014012303

OCLC

884882092

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library