Gender and Christian Ethics by Adrian Thatcher (English) Paperback Book

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This book is for students of theology, Christian ethics, and religious and gender studies; and everyone longing for the full acceptance of women and LGBTIQ people in the churches and beyond. It exposes the roots of prejudice against women and sexual minorities, and offers constructive proposals for gender justice.

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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. 

Author Biography

Adrian Thatcher is the author of twelve books, most recently Redeeming Gender (2016), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality and Gender (2015).

Table of Contents

Part I. Gender and Violence: 1. Aims and key terms; 2. The global gender crisis; 3. Gender binaries as theological problems; Part II. Double Vision: Catholics and Protestants Sexual Difference: 4. The Vatican and the war on gender; 5. Women, men, and Barth; 6. The conceit of complementarity; Part III. The Human Continuum: A Place for Everyone: 7. The continuum and the doctrine of God; 8. The human continuum: a place for everyone; 9. The masculine/feminine binary and the theological critique of culture; 10. The continuum and sacred texts.

Review

'This book will unsettle many in the Christian ethical tradition but it will also impress many with its adroit use of biblical and theological scholarship and reasoned response to one of the crying moral issues of the day - gender discrimination … Highly recommended.' F. G. Kirkpatrick, Choice Connect

Promotional

Provides strong theological arguments for replacing the binary understanding of gender, and for the embracing of sexual minorities.

Details ISBN1108813232 Author Adrian Thatcher Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 1108813232 ISBN-13 9781108813235 Series New Studies in Christian Ethics Year 2024 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-01-25 Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781108839488 DEWEY 233.5 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Audience Professional & Vocational UK Release Date 2024-01-25 Pages 243 We've got this

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