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Queer Ideas—a unique series addressing
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Names: Edman, Elizabeth M.

Title: Queer virtue : what LGBTQ people know about life and love and how it can revitalize Christianity / The Reverend Elizabeth M. Edman.

Description: Boston : Beacon Press, 2016. | Series: Queer action/queer ideas | Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015027701| ISBN 978-0-8070-6134-3 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 978-0-8070-6135-0 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Queer theology. | Sex—Religious aspects—Christianity. | Queer theory. | Christianity.

Classification: LCC BT83.65.E36 2016 | DDC 230.086/64—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015027701