Thursday, October 4, 2018

On the Streets of Babylon: Queering the City of God?

Babylon is fallen, is fallen,... 
Come out of her, my people,
Revelation 14:8/18:4
There' seems to be some  "Queering the City of God" taking place on the Streets of Babylon...

"St. John's Cathedral in Brisbane held a service of "Choral Evensong for the Brisbane pride festival." The church's Facebook page posted photos of the church decked in rainbow flags, the sermon
referred to the Trinity of God as the church's "queering principle," and according to reports, prayers were said to a "Rainbow Christ" and an "Erotic Christ."
"The Trinity is our Queering principle, that which invites us to defy binaries and labels," Peter Catt, the cathedral's dean, declared in a sermon entitled "Queering the City of God."
Catt seized on Galatians 3:28, "There is neither Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus." The dean argued that this passage meant "the Christian is not to understand their-self or others in terms of the great binary classification that were applied to humanity at the time," but to "transcend these three binaries."
"We talk of God as being a Trinity: Three in One. The Anglican Theologian Sarah Coakley suggests that the fact that God is a Trinity trumps all our binaries," he argued. "No binary is of God. She also points us to the fact that Church fathers such as Gregory of Nyssa held that there is a gender fluidity within the persons of the Trinity."
PJMedia