Gerard Patrick Loughlin^[1] is an English Roman Catholic theologian^[2] and religious scholar.^[3] He is Professor of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham, England.^[4] He is the author of Telling God's Story: Bible Church and Narrative Theology (1996)^[3] and Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology (2004).^[5]

A gay Roman Catholic,^[6] some of Loughlin's work is in the sub-discipline of queer theology. He is the coeditor (with Jon Davies) of Sex These Days: Essays on Theology, Sexuality and Society (Continuum 1997) and editor of Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body (Blackwell, 2007). He serves on the editorial board of Literature and Theology (Oxford University Press) and is co-editor (with Elizabeth Stuart and Kent Brintnall) of Theology and Sexuality (Taylor&Francis).

His master's thesis is titled The Novels of Modernism: The Embodiment of Roman Catholic Modernism in the Literature of Religious Turmoil and Faith at the Turn of the Century, c. 1888–1914.^[1] His doctoral thesis, which he wrote under the supervision of John Robinson,^[4] is titled Mirroring God's World: A Critique of John Hick's Speculative Theology.^[7]

• Telling God's Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
• (ed. with Jon Davies) Sex These Days: Essays on Theology, Sexuality and Society (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1997)
• Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
• (ed.) Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)

• Postliberal theology
• Radical orthodoxy