Constructive Theology And Gender Variance

Author : Susannah Cornwall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496318
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructive Theology and Gender Variance written by Susannah Cornwall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

Author : Susannah Cornwall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110885365X
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Constructive Theology and Gender Variance written by Susannah Cornwall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some Christians are anxious and uncomfortable about gender diversity and transition. Sometimes, they understand these issues as a rejection of God's intention for creation. Gender diversity has also been assumed to entail self-deception, mental ill-health, and dysphoria. Yet, humans are inherently transformative creatures with a vocation to shape their own worlds and traditions. Transformative creaturely theology recognizes the capacity of gender to shape humans even as we also question it. In this book, Susannah Cornwall reframes the issues of gender diversity and transition in constructive Christian theological terms. Resisting deficit-based discourses, she presents gender diversity in a way that is positive and non-oppositional. Her volume explores questions of the licit limits of technological interventions for human bodies, how gender diversity maps onto understandings of health, and the ethics of disclosure of gender diversity. It also brings these topics into critical conversation with constructive Christian theologies of creation, theological anthropology, Christology, and eschatology.

Author : Daniel R. Patterson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666731498
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming a Theology of Gender written by Daniel R. Patterson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Justin Sabia-Tanis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532636423
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trans-Gender written by Justin Sabia-Tanis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex Clare-Young
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334066018
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trans Formations written by Alex Clare-Young and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trans Formations is not a book about trans and non-binary Christians it is a book by trans and non-binary Christians. Who they are, what they experience, and what they understand stretches beyond trans-apologetics to formative anthropological and theological notions without which the body of anthropological and theological knowledge is incomplete. They have things to say about God and about being human and their yet-to-be-accessed insights matter. Whilst there is an abundance of material about trans ethics, there is little trans-written theology or theological anthropology that is formative, rather than trans critical or trans-apologetic. Situated within a queer paradigm, this book presents the identities, insights, and ideas of ten diverse trans and non-binary Christians. Alex Clare-Young, through their own identity, experiences, and insights of researching alongside nine other wonderful human-beings, writes their trans formational journey into being.

Author : Professor of Theology and Affiliated Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies Natalie Carnes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197765629
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attunement written by Professor of Theology and Affiliated Faculty in Women's and Gender Studies Natalie Carnes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a feminist theologian to do with Christianity's patriarchal inheritance? She can avoid the most patriarchal aspects of the theological tradition and seek resources for constructive work elsewhere. Or she can critique misogynistic texts and artifacts, exposing their strategies of domination to warn against replicating them. Both approaches have merits and yet, without other interpretive strategies, they reaffirm that the theological tradition does not belong to women and others marginalized by gender. They cannot transform the discourse. But within feminist theology are the seeds of another approach, aimed at just such transformation by reworking the theological landscape to become hospitable to all those marginalized by gender. Attunement: The Art and Politics of Feminist Theology identifies trajectories resonant with this alternative approach and from them, describes and develops attunement as a third, generative path for feminist theologians. Attunement is an aesthetically-invested approach to texts and artifacts that self-consciously co-creates as it interprets. Aware of what the text affords the reader, attunement constellates images, texts, and insights to build or augment positive affordances in the text and diminish negative ones. Natalie Carnes describes why this approach is significant for feminist theology, maps its roots in a long history of gender-marginalized individuals claiming authority, describes how it casts interpretation as both an aesthetic and political event, and notes how it might provide a way forward in vexed topics in feminist theology.

Author : Austen Hartke
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 1646983106
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming: Updated and Expanded Edition with Study Guide written by Austen Hartke and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2014, Time magazine announced that America had reached “the transgender tipping point,” suggesting that transgender issues would become the next civil rights frontier. Years later, many people—even many LGBTQIA+ allies—still lack understanding of gender identity and the transgender experience. Into this void, trans biblical scholar Austen Hartke brings a biblically based, educational, and affirming resource to shed light and wisdom on gender expansiveness and Christian theology. This new edition offers updated terminology and statistics, plus new materials for congregational study, preaching, and pastoral care. Transforming deftly weaves ancient and modern stories that will change the way readers think about gender, the Bible, and the faith to which Jesus calls us. Hartke helps readers visualize a more inclusive Christianity, equipping them with the language, understanding, confidence, and tools to change both the church and the world.

Author : Todd M. Johnson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1399528181
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity in Western and Northern Europe written by Todd M. Johnson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the origins of Christianity lie in the Near East, Europe and Christianity have an exceptional relationship, since most Europeans perceive Christianity as a Western - more precisely, as a European - religion. The region has seen rapid social change in the 21st century, set off by factors including energy crisis and environmental awareness, poverty and exclusion, falling birthrates and increased migration, changing attitudes to sexuality, gender and family life, and challenges to Europe's idea of itself and place in the global order. Amidst all this flux, this volume focuses on one particular issue: the rapidly changing profile of the Christian faith that has shaped the life of the European continent for a millennium and more.At a time when patterns of Christian life and worship appear to be dying out, yet traces of new life are also appearing, this volume maps out the current reality of Christianity in Western and Northern Europe with all its questions and uncertainties.

Author : Sam Ashton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567713156
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Male and Female? written by Sam Ashton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this incisive work, Sam Ashton provides a compelling, consistent and erudite argument for a foundational approach to the matter of sexual difference, drawing on biblical and doctrinal material and using resources in their original languages. He tracks and traces the sexed body as it moves from creation, through the fall, to redemption “now,” and final consummation “not yet.” In doing so, Ashton presents what is perhaps the strongest case that can be made for 'male and female He created them'. Each chapter privileges biblical exegesis, drawing upon figures in church history (notably Augustine and Aquinas) as and when they illumine Scripture. By doing so, the book considers the difficulty presented to sexual dimorphism by the phenomenon of intersex. Ashton seeks to develop an understanding that is generous, inclusive and affirming, so he works carefully through the writings of Thatcher, Song and Cornwall in a way that invites engagement and dialogue. With the complete divine drama in view, the book offers synthetic judgments about what remains essential for the “structure” of the sexed body as it travels through history and what may be accidental to the sexed body's “direction” within a particular theo-dramatic act. Ashton concludes by considering ways to transition from dogmatic judgments about intersexuality to the moral-pastoral care of concrete intersex individuals, briefly thinking about the complex matter of marriage.

Author : Bryan Cones
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1640656472
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queering Christian Worship written by Bryan Cones and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking collection of writings that place queer ritual at the center of the theological conversation. In this collection of essays, leading scholars in queer theology and liturgical studies explore the ways in which the distinctive theological voices of LGBTQIA+ Christians challenge and expand thinking and practice around worship in new directions. This challenge has expanded in the past decades, as obstacles to the full participation of queer Christians—particularly in marriage and ordination—have fallen. Organized into three main parts, the volume begins with an introduction to queer engagement with ritual practices, continues with a series of case studies that examine queer texts and contexts, and concludes with an examination of the horizons of queer liturgical theology and practice. Throughout the volume, Queering Christian Worship provides new imagination and tools to those who study and curate Christian worship across traditions.