Polyamorous Theology

A Dialogical Experiment in Thinking

From the introduction...

This theology is not one that should be read the same by every person because every person is different and, therefore, every polyamorous experience and sets of encounters are going to be divergent. And so lastly, I'll ask this almost rhetorical and loaded question: What was surprising about doing this project? For me, part of the resulting all-encompassing answer is going be the case in most situations. This is my first time actually completing a project keeping in mind very candidly that I am a cisgender heterosexual male who is monogamous, while my primary conversation partner identifies as a cisgender homosexual male who is polyamorous. On some plane of existence the adventure was and is kind of miraculous in that we were able to kind find so much common ground. Even though it is true that we seem to have quite an excellent and trusted working relationship and work well together, it is still somewhat surprising for me and for Bryan that it's almost like our ideas flow easily in a congruent and fruitful manner – despite such different worldviews and experiences in terms of loving relationships. To that end, I'm given hope, in that surprising reality that we do have what I call “proleptic possibilities” in these kinds of conversations and in the revelatory conclusions with this project, because we would not necessarily see the typical resulting conclusions in the same manner. As scholarly partners on a project like this, we come from completely different backgrounds. But in that difference - a set of differences – we have found common ground theologically and experientially. And such common ground is based in a very critical experiential and theological concept that we keep tossing around: love.