Gender and Christian ethics /
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| Author / Creator: | Thatcher, Adrian, author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2021. ©2021 |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( xii, 230 pages) |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New studies in Christian ethics New studies in Christian ethics. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12533466 |
| Summary: | In this book, Adrian Thatcher offers fresh theological arguments for expanding our understanding of gender. He begins by describing the various meanings of gender and depicts the relations between women and men as a pervasive human and global problem. Thatcher then critiques naive and harmful theological accounts of sexuality and gender as binary opposites or mistaken identities. Demonstrating that the gendered theologies of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Barth, as well as the Vatican's "war on gender" rest on questionable binary models, he replaces these models with a human continuum that allows for sexual difference without assuming "opposite sexes" and normative sexualities. Grounded in core Christian doctrines, this continuum enables a full theological affirmation of LGBTIQ people. Thatcher also addresses the excesses of the male/female binary in secular culture and outlines a hermeneutic that delivers justice and acceptance instead of sexism and discrimination. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( xii, 230 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108884204 1108884202 9781108880886 1108880886 9781108839488 9781108813235 1108839487 1108813232 |
