ABSTRACT
Marcella Althaus-Reid is Senior Lecturer in Christian Ethics and Practical Theology in the School of Divinity, New College at the University of Edinburgh. She completed her first degree in Buenos Aires at ISEDET (Union Theological Seminary) during the 1970s in an environment in which political, social and theological commitment was very clearly to the causes and methodologies of liberation theology as was developing in Latin America at the time. Indecent Theology aims to challenge heterosexist hegemonies and, using Althaus-Reid's terminology, puts Christian theology very firmly into bed with God in a sexually active way. The indecent theology of Althaus-Reid refuses the exclusions of sexuality from theology and alongside such writers as Nelson, Sheldrake and Stuart states the centrality of sexuality to human experience and so to theology. Indecent theology, as proposed by Althaus-Reid, is a theology that accepts the feminist analysis that women, both historically and have experienced widespread injustice.
