
Gender and Christian Ethics
Adrian Thatcher(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 22. October 2020
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-1-108-83948-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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 ConnectMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 164 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
480 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-83948-8 (9781108839488)
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Adrian Thatcher
Gender and Christian Ethics
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01/2024
Cambridge University Press
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Person
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).
Content
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.