Edited by Adrian Thatcher, Visiting Professor, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Exeter

Professor Adrian Thatcher is Visiting Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter. He was formerly Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Exeter (2004-2011), and Professor of Applied Theology at the University of St. Mark and John, Plymouth (1995-2004). His publications include Making Sense of Sex (SPCK, 2012), God, Sex, and Gender (Wiley Blackwell, 2011), and The Savage Text: The Uses and Abuses of the Bible (Wiley Blackwell, 2008).

Asma Barlas
Michael Barnes Norton
Mandakranta Bose
Tina Beattie
Brendan Callaghan
Patrick S. Cheng
Simon Coleman
Pamela Cooper-White
Colleen Conway
Susannah Cornwall
Deborah Creamer
Dyan Elliott
Andrew Goddard
Rita Gross
Angelique Harris
Linda Hogan
Stephen Hunt
Mary Jo Iozzio
Ronit Irshai
Lisa Isherwood
Theodore Jennings
Margaret Kamitsuka
William Kay
Thomas Knieps Port Le-Roi
Mathew Kuefler
Michael Lawler
William Loader
Gerard Loughlin
Ruth Mazo Carras
Marilyn McCord Adams
Neil Messer
Cynthia Nielsen
Margaret Robinson
Eugene Rogers
Todd Salzman
Jane Shaw
Ola Sigurdson
Anna Stewart
Ken Stone
Elizabeth Stuart
Steve Summers
Adrian Thatcher
Marta Trzebiatowska
John Witte, Jr.

"[T]his collection is authoritative and exhaustive ... It has genuinely 'go-to' chapters on queer theory and disabled theology, and skilled essays on Christianity and historical context ... It explores how sex and gender are fundamental to understandings of God, community, and self. I see the Oxford Handbook becoming a standard." - Rachel Mann, Church Times

"Thatcher has done an amazing job by bringing together many of the leading scholars in the field ... this comprehensive and colourful collection of 41 essays has the potential to reach far beyond theologians as its primarily intended readers and embodies the promise of the significant role theologians can, do, and should play in the study of religion, gender and sexuality." - Marco Derks, Religion and Gender

"In a review of this length it is hard to do justice to the richness and variety of contributions on a subject that is of abiding interest to humankind." - Padraig Corkery, INTAMS

"The volume contains some of the best, most articulate advocates" - David Cloutier, Studies in Christian Ethics

"Thatcher has done an outstanding job in shaping this volume of forty-one chapters. It fully deserves to become a well-thumbed resource in every library which aspires to help educate Christian today. ... Hopefully, this excellent volume will go some way to helping the next generation of theologians to live and loveand thinkmore freely." - Duncan Dormor, Modern Believing