Redeeming Gender
Visiting Professor Adrian Thatcher
(Author)Description
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.
Product Details
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
| Publish Date | September 09, 2016 |
| Pages | 288 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780198744757 |
| Dimensions | 5.6 X 8.6 X 0.8 inches | 0.8 pounds |
About the Author
Adrian Thatcher is Visiting Professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter. He was formerly Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Exeter (2004-2011), and Professor of Applied Theology at the University of St. Mark and John, Plymouth (1995-2004). His publications include Making Sense of Sex (SPCK, 2012), God, Sex, and Gender (Wiley Blackwell, 2011), and The Savage Text: The Uses and Abuses of the Bible (Wiley Blackwell, 2008). He is also the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender (2014).
Reviews
"[I]f one can affirm his premise that "patriarchy is responsible for [sex and gender-based violence]," this will be a highly coveted book. If not, most readers will be able to appreciate Thatcher's initial impulse to direct theology of gender towards Christology and Trinitarianism, and his creative approach to understanding human solidarity alongside sex difference."--Katherine Apostolacus, Theology and Sexuality
"Accessible and deceptively challenging account of gender theory from an Anglican theologian, which offers something fresh to the human sexuality conversation."--The Baptist Times
"[A]n unusually well-written and well-structured book by an established liberal Anglican theologian. . . . an important corrective to the dogmatic theological claims of those who defend female subordination, reject same-sex marriage, or despite openly transgender people." --Church Times
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