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ADVANCE PRAISE for From Sin to Amazing Grace
Cheng takes us through a systematic re-working of the classical doctrines of sin and grace, and lands us in a place where, surprisingly, these ideas can once again sing with life for Christian LGBTQ persons. Its a serious and splendid book.
Serene Jones, President and Roosevelt Professor of Systematic Theology, Union Theological Seminary in New York City
This gifted theologian and teacher offers an accessible and compelling case for why LGBT persons (and others) need to take back the words sin and grace. Be forewarned: reading Cheng is likely to stretch your theological and moral imagination, but all to the good.
Marvin M. Ellison, Willard S. Bass Professor of Christian Ethics, Bangor Theological Seminary; author of Making Love Just: Sexual Ethics for Perplexing Times and co-editor of Sexuality and the Sacred: Sources for Theological Reflection, 2nd edition
Patrick Cheng has given the Christian church and the theological academy a precious gift. Chengs work ranks among the best scholarship of a new generation of theologians. I have experienced more amazing graceand grown more mature theologicallybecause of this book.
Tat-siong Benny Liew, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean, and Professor of New Testament, Pacific School of Religion
Cheng provides our hurting community with a healing theology; an accessible christology which celebrates an open and affirming Christianity desperately needed by most of our churches. This book is good news for all who are queer, as well as for those who are not!
Miguel A. De La Torre, Professor of Social Ethics and Latino/a Studies, Iliff School of Theology; 2012 President of the Society of Christian Ethics
Christ is the treasure hidden in the scriptures, wrote Irenaeus, the second century theologian. Christ is the treasure, and Chengs work is a treasure map of LGBT advances in theology that helps us find, once again, that God loves all of us and wants us to be free.
Rev. Dr. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, Professor of Theology and former president, Chicago Theological Seminary; blogger for the Washington Post; and prolific writer, author, and editor, including co-editor of Lift Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies from the Underside
Patrick Cheng has produced a much-needed pastoral book for LGBTIQ and, in fact, all Christians. This is a remarkable theological and pastoral exploration that can help individual Christians and congregations to re-align their spiritual development.
Rev. Dr. Robert E. Shore-Goss, Senior Pastor/Theologian, MCC in the Valley, North Hollywood; author of Jesus Acted Up and Queering Christ
The act of reading Patrick Chengs Christ-centered theology of sin and grace offers both healing pastoral care and political empowerment. Christians who have been wounded, alienated, or simply befuddled by the ongoing use of Christianity to further heterosexist hate and disenfranchisement have been waiting for this book.
Traci C. West, Professor of Ethics and African American Studies, Drew University Theological School; author of Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Womens Lives Matter
Copyright 2012 by Patrick S. Cheng
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.
Unless otherwise noted, the Scripture quotations contained herein are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Cover design by Laurie Klein Westhafer
Typeset by Denise Hoff
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cheng, Patrick S.
From sin to amazing grace : discovering the queer Christ / Patrick S. Cheng.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-59627-238-5 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-59627-239-2 (ebook) 1. Sin. 2. Grace.
3. Jesus Christ--Persons and offices. 4. Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Christianity. I. Title.
BT715.C446 2012
230.08664--dc23
2011048065
Seabury Books
445 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York 10016
www.churchpublishing.org
An imprint of Church Publishing Incorporated
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To the grace-filled community of the Episcopal Divinity School
Through many dangers, toils, and snares,
I have already come;
Tis grace that brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
John Newton, Amazing Grace (1779)
I first learned that I was a sinner in junior high school. Struggling to understand my budding attraction to other boys, I turned to my local public library for help. Being a devout Roman Catholic, I found a reference book on Catholic doctrine, and I furtively turned to the entry on homosexuality. There I learnedto my horrorthat I was not only a sinner, but that I was intrinsically disordered. I shut the book in shame, and my relationship with God was never again the same.
It took another fifteen yearsand a good dose of Gods amazing gracebefore I was able to walk into a church out of love and not fear. In those intervening years, I had met and fallen in love with my now-husband, Michael. Through Michael, I had experienced the power of Gods incarnational love in a way that no theology book or doctrine could ever convey. Because of the grace of this relationshipthat is, a relationship that was a pure gift from God and not something that I had earned or deservedmy eyes and ears were opened once more to the Good News.
Given the traumatic experiences of so many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LBGT) peopleincluding myselfwith respect to the doctrines of sin and grace, why do we need an entire book on this topic? Wouldnt queer
Indeed, my lifes vocation as a queer theologian has been largely an attempt to make sense of that day back in junior high school when my queerness and my Christian faith first collided in the local public library.
In Part I of this book, I argue that we must move from a crime-based model to a Christ-centered model of sin and grace. The traditional understanding of sin and grace in Western Christianity has centered on notions of crime and punishment. As inheritors of the theological legacy of Augustine of Hippo, we have come to understand sin as a crime. That is, sin is a violation of Gods laws, whether biblical or natural, and thus it demands punishment. As the story goes, the original offense committed by our first parents Adam and Eve in the Garden of Edenthat is, their eating of the forbidden fruitwas such an egregious crime that all of subsequent humanity has been punished with death as well as the infection or taint of original sin. As a result of this primal fall, we are damaged and unable to do any good on our own accord. To remedy this sad state of affairs, God sent Jesus Christ to redeem humanity because only a being who is both human and divine could rectify (that is, atone or pay the price for) such an egregious wrong. Grace, then, is Gods acquittal of our crime and our rehabilitation so that we will no longer sin again.
We need to move away from this traditional crime-based model and towards a Christ-centered, or christological, model of sin and grace. Instead of understanding sin as a crime that needs to be punished, we need to understand sin as
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