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Reforming a Theology of Gender

by Daniel R Patterson

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cascade Books
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

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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.
Reforming a Theology of Gender and Old Testament Story and Christian Ethics
Old Testament Story and Christian EthicsReforming a Theology of Gender

  • Author

    Daniel R Patterson

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cascade Books

  • Published

    August 2022

  • Weight

    395g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781666731491

  • ISBN-10

    1666731498

  • Eden Code

    5707001

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