Same church, different worlds

I've been at the hospital most of the day with Matthew as he underwent a lengthy diagnostic procedure. No fun for anybody. The boy was well taken care of by a nice nurse who, as it turns out, is a traditionalist Anglican and an avid follower of TEC controversies. I invited him to visit this blog. Nurse R. from Fort Worth, I offer without comment this from Episcopal Divinity School spring course catalog. Enjoy the utter and complete used-to-be-disgusted, now-I-try-to-be-amused insanity (OK, that was comment)!:

T 3150 Queer Incarnation

Jordan

7:00-9:00 pm

The incarnation is sometimes presented as an arithmetic problem: What do you get when you add some divinity to a human body? But thinking about incarnation has to start much further back, in the realization that accounts of Jesus show us how little we understand about either divinity or bodies, much less about how bodies can show, act, and becomes divine. Just here and theology of the incarnation can learn from works of queer theory and the writings of queer thinkers. The body of Jesus- despised, de-sexed, and yet miraculously distributed- invites us to an exchange of bodies along the margins of human power and its certainties. We will think about the queerness of Jesus' body with the help of some traditional texts on incarnation and passion (Athanasius, Bonaventure, Aquinas, Julian) and much more recent work on gender performance, bodily transition or transformation, and the rituals of camp.

Er, wow.