Reforming A Theology Of Gender

Author : Daniel R. Patterson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666724066

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Reforming a Theology of Gender by Daniel R. Patterson Pdf

Judith Butler and conservative Christian theology are often perceived to be antithetical on questions of gender. In Reforming a Theology of Gender they are shown to be strange bedfellows. By engaging in dialogue with Butler on her terms--desire, violence, and life--this book absorbs the heart of Butler's critique, revealing a righteous law and a seductive image in conservative theologies of gender. The law of Adam and Eve manifests in the unjust administration of guilt, grief, and death. By confronting this law, which in fact condemns all in their bodies, further reflection on Butler's thought leads to thinking about where one finds life in one's body of death. The seductive image of Adam and Eve is revealed to be a false hope and a site that induces slave morality or body-works-based righteousness. Butler's voice is strangely prophetic because it calls the church to offer hope and life by reorienting its gaze from the beautiful yet lifeless bodies of Adam and Eve to the bloodied and scarred, risen body of Jesus Christ. Gender, in the end, is shown to be a vocation of becoming what one is not.

Author : Daniel R. Patterson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666731491

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Reforming a Theology of Gender by Daniel R. Patterson Pdf

Judith Butler and conservative Christian theology are often perceived to be antithetical on questions of gender. In Reforming a Theology of Gender they are shown to be strange bedfellows. By engaging in dialogue with Butler on her terms—desire, violence, and life—this book absorbs the heart of Butler’s critique, revealing a righteous law and a seductive image in conservative theologies of gender. The law of Adam and Eve manifests in the unjust administration of guilt, grief, and death. By confronting this law, which in fact condemns all in their bodies, further reflection on Butler’s thought leads to thinking about where one finds life in one’s body of death. The seductive image of Adam and Eve is revealed to be a false hope and a site that induces slave morality or body-works-based righteousness. Butler’s voice is strangely prophetic because it calls the church to offer hope and life by reorienting its gaze from the beautiful yet lifeless bodies of Adam and Eve to the bloodied and scarred, risen body of Jesus Christ. Gender, in the end, is shown to be a vocation of becoming what one is not.

Author : Elaine Wainwright,Lisa Sowle Cahill,Diego Irarrazaval
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334031208

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Gender and Theology by Elaine Wainwright,Lisa Sowle Cahill,Diego Irarrazaval Pdf

Concilium has long been a household-name for cutting-edge critical and constructive theological thinking. Past contributors include leading Catholic scholars such as Hans Küng, Gregory Baum and Edward Schillebeeckx, and the editors of the review belong to the international "who's who" in the world of contemporary theology. Published five times a year, each issue reflects a deep knowledge and scholarship presented in a highly readable style, and each issue offers a wide variety of viewpoints from leading thinkers from all over the world.

Author : Sarah Apetrei
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192572981

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The Reformation of the Heart by Sarah Apetrei Pdf

The Reformation of the Heart: Gender and Radical Theology in the English Revolution offers fresh insight into the relationship between radical theology and gender radicalism in the English Revolution. It addresses together two themes which have long fascinated historians of the period: the intellectual formation of religious radicalism, and the prominence of women as prophets and preachers in radical sects. Sarah Apetrei explores the remarkable ideas and reforming visions of a levelling and highly mystical network in the period of civil conflict, the regicide, and its aftermath—a network which linked military chaplains with inspired women and congregations across England. Drawing on both printed works and previously unexamined manuscript evidence, Apetrei discovers that revolutionary radicals were both more theologically daring, and more unified in their support for women's participation, than we have hitherto thought. On one side, the army chaplains and radical preachers developed a highly original theology of gender, conceiving of a female principle in the Godhead. They were also explicit advocates of women's preaching to an extent previously unacknowledged. Concomitantly, women's involvement in preaching and publishing during this period of crisis fostered innovative thinking. In a climate in which Reformed teachings about the limits of election were being reasserted, women were pioneers in teaching the doctrine of universal salvation or 'general redemption'. Female theologians and visionaries also played a prominent part in the dissemination of ideas, drawn from European radical reformations and condemned by the magisterial churches, about the 'heavenly flesh' of Christ and its appearance in the bodies of the saints in the last days. They used highly feminized, maternal imagery to discuss Christ. As such, this book also contributes to feminist epistemology. It shows how, as a group with distinctive experiences, priorities, and cultural identities, the involvement of women in religious reform and the conception of ideas can be truly transformative.

Author : Elaine L. Graham
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781474281782

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Making the Difference by Elaine L. Graham Pdf

One of the most significant phenomena within the Western church in the second half of the twentieth century has been the emergence of feminist theology. This both reflects and promotes pastoral and policy concerns about the proper roles and relationships of women and men within the Christian church, such as the validity of women's priestly ministry, the use of inclusive language in liturgy and the metaphorical naming of God. At the heart of the debate is the question of the meaning and significance of gender in theology and Christian practice. Within the human and social sciences, the analysis of gender is treated as an essential aspect of human behaviour. By contrast, within the church there has been little sustained or disciplined attention to the nature and underlying significance of gender. Theological discourse and church policy have too often displayed ignorance and unexamined assumptions about the crucial issues involved. Graham attempts a more detailed and critical inquiry into how an analysis of gender can affect policy, practice and discourse within the church. Focusing on three major disciplines – anthropology, biology and psychoanalysis – she demonstrates how these offer profound implications for our understanding of the foundations of human culture and identity, for theological studies and for Christian practice.

Author : Adrian Thatcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191062186

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Redeeming Gender by Adrian Thatcher Pdf

Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches' energies are really about gender. The dominant understanding of women's bodies in the Christian West has been that they are inferior versions of the superior male body. This 'one-sex model' of the human body was replaced during the Enlightenment with a model of two opposite sexes. However, both models are inadequate for a theological or a secular understanding of the sexed body. In this innovative work, Adrian Thatcher envisages relations between women and men no longer blighted by long-term patriarchy, androcentrism and sexism in church and world, but redeemed from these structural sins by the grace of Jesus Christ. Dissected into two parts, Part One explains the legacy of both the one-sex and two-sex theories. It uncovers the one-sex theory and its assumptions, and indicates its presence in early Christian thought. It then describes what happened in our social, intellectual and theological history, which leaves us thinking that there are two sexes. In Part Two, Thatcher contributes to an emerging theology of gender in which women and men are fully and equally valued, and in which sexual difference (insofar as it exists at all), is capable of transformation into joyful communion, reflecting the very life of God the Holy Trinity. He exposes the reliance of much Church and theological teaching about sex and gender either on biblical proof texts or upon the language and nomenclature of late modernity, rather than upon considerations of Theology and Christology. Thatcher also indicates how Theology and Christology, in the area of gender, envisions the redemption of human relationships.

Author : Lisa Sowle Cahill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521578485

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Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics by Lisa Sowle Cahill Pdf

This book endorses feminist critiques of gender, yet upholds the insight of traditional Christianity that sex, commitment and parenthood are fulfilling human relations. Their unity is a positive ideal, though not an absolute norm. Women and men should enjoy equal personal respect and social power. In reply to feminist critics of oppressive gender and sex norms and to communitarian proponents of Christian morality, Cahill argues that effective intercultural criticism of injustice requires a modest defence of moral objectivity. She thus adopts a critical realism as its moral foundation, drawing on Aristotle and Aquinas. Moral judgment should be based on reasonable, practical, prudent and cross-culturally nuanced reflection on human experience. This is combined with a New Testament model of community, centred on solidarity, compassion and inclusion of the economically or socially marginalised.

Author : Robert Hannaford,J'annine Jobling
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Body, Human
ISBN : 0852444850

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Theology and the Body by Robert Hannaford,J'annine Jobling Pdf

Author : Heather R. White
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469624129

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Reforming Sodom by Heather R. White Pdf

With a focus on mainline Protestants and gay rights activists in the twentieth century, Heather R. White challenges the usual picture of perennial adversaries with a new narrative about America's religious and sexual past. White argues that today's antigay Christian traditions originated in the 1920s when a group of liberal Protestants began to incorporate psychiatry and psychotherapy into Christian teaching. A new therapeutic orthodoxy, influenced by modern medicine, celebrated heterosexuality as God-given and advocated a compassionate "cure" for homosexuality. White traces the unanticipated consequences as the therapeutic model, gaining popularity after World War II, spurred mainline church leaders to take a critical stance toward rampant antihomosexual discrimination. By the 1960s, a vanguard of clergy began to advocate for homosexual rights. White highlights the continued importance of this religious support to the consolidating gay and lesbian movement. However, the ultimate irony of the therapeutic orthodoxy's legacy was its adoption, beginning in the 1970s, by the Christian Right, which embraced it as an age-old tradition to which Americans should return. On a broader level, White challenges the assumed secularization narrative in LGBT progress by recovering the forgotten history of liberal Protestants' role on both sides of the debates over orthodoxy and sexual identity.

Author : Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1990-05-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830812970

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Gender Grace by Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen Pdf

From brain structure and role models to the creation drama and the new covenant, Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen helps us to understand more clearly the forces--and the freedoms--that shape our lives.

Author : Fellipe do Vale
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493443925

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Gender as Love by Fellipe do Vale Pdf

In recent years, the issue of gender has become a topic of great importance and has generated discussion from the kitchen table to the academy. It is an issue that churches and Christian educational institutions are grappling with as well, since gender is a crucial aspect of identity, affecting how we engage socially and understand our embodiment. Upstream from all these conversations lies a more basic question: What is gender? In Gender as Love, Fellipe do Vale takes a theological approach to understanding gender, employing both biblical exegesis and historical theology and emphasizing the role human love plays in shaping our identities. He engages with and explains current theories and debates, but his approach is unique in that it avoids the present impasse between social constructionist and biological essentialist paradigms. His emphasis is on love as identity forming. This fresh, holistic approach makes an important contribution to the literature and will benefit scholars and students alike. Foreword by Beth Felker Jones.

Author : Susannah Cornwall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108496315

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Constructive Theology and Gender Variance by Susannah Cornwall Pdf

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

Author : Megan K. DeFranza
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467442954

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Sex Difference in Christian Theology by Megan K. DeFranza Pdf

How different are men and women? When does it matter to us -- or to God? Are male and female the only two options? In Sex Difference in Christian Theology Megan DeFranza explores such questions in light of the Bible, theology, and science. Many Christians, entrenched in culture wars over sexual ethics, are either ignorant of the existence of intersex persons or avoid the inherent challenge they bring to the assumption that everybody is born after the pattern of either Adam or Eve. DeFranza argues, from a conservative theological standpoint, that all people are made in the image of God -- male, female, and intersex -- and that we must listen to and learn from the voices of the intersexed among us.

Author : John Gordon Stackhouse
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780801031304

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Finally Feminist by John Gordon Stackhouse Pdf

Provocative, clear, and honest, this is a constructive Christian understanding of gender that moves the conversation forward.

Author : Anne-Louise Eriksson
Publisher : Coronet Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017402251

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The Meaning of Gender in Theology by Anne-Louise Eriksson Pdf