Passionate Holiness tries to remedy this situation by explaining why acquaintance with the stories of certain saints with whom gender minorities can identify can help them to connect with their own history and spiritual legacy and empower them to face a brighter future with a sense of optimism and inclusion. Dennis ONeill reclaims the many queer treasures that lie buried in Christian history.

Unfortunately, it has been particularly difficult for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trans-gendered Christians to remain connected with and to identify with their own faith traditions because some of these traditions not only treat them as people of secondary status but teach Christian history as though no people of same-gender attraction or opposite-gender identity had any noteworthy place in it and made no significant contributions at all to Christian tradition. Passionate Holiness is a feast for the mind, the eyes, and the soul. Passionate Holiness: Marginalized Christian Devotions for Distinctive Peoples is written by Dennis O'Neill and published by Trafford Publishing. More recently, he described homophobic discrimination as totally unacceptable and unjust as apartheid ever was. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of Cape Town once said with regard to South Africa’s apartheid policy, One of the ways of helping to destroy a people is to tell them that they don’t have a history, that they have no roots. Passionate Holiness : Marginalized Christian Devotions for Distinctive Peoples by Dennis ONeill (2005, Trade Paperback) Brand new.

Passionate Holiness by Dennis O'Neill