Being the Body of Christ

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Being the Body of Christ is written by Chris Mounsey and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317543815 (ISBN 10) and 9781317543817 (ISBN 13).

The book explores the preoccupation of key twentieth-century English writers with theology and sexuality and how the Anglican Church has responded and continues to respond to the issue of homosexuality. Analysing the work of Oscar Wilde, E. F. Benson, Edward Carpenter, Jeanette Winterson, and Alan Hollingshurst, the book explores the literary tradition of exasperation at the church's obduracy against homosexuality.