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intersex conditions and Christian theology

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Cover of: Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ
Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ: Intersex Conditions and Christian Theology
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
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Cover of: Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ
Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ: Intersex Conditions and Christian Theology
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ
Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ: Intersex Conditions and Christian Theology
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ
Sex and Uncertainty in the Body of Christ: Intersex Conditions and Christian Theology
2016, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
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Sex and uncertainty in the body of Christ: intersex conditions and Christian theology
2010, Equinox Pub. Ltd, Routledge
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Introducing intersex/DSD
Existing theological work on intersex/DSD
Theological themes : justice, speakability and dubious goods
Methodology
Reflecting and reproducing : the history of intersex
Inadequate models
The pre-modern period : anatomy, appearance and a priori beliefs
The sixteenth to nineteenth centuries : regulation, classification, taxonomy
The twentieth century : money, reimer and the early surgery paradigm
The 1990s onwards : politics, protest and calls for change
The rise of support and advocacy groups
Controversial nomenclature : intersex versus DSD and beyond
Good enough genitals : the use of moral language for intersex
Why all the unsolicited attention : corrective surgery as stigmatizing
Outing the outcomes : follow-up studies and access to information
Reconstructing perfection : the restitution narrative
Relinquishing and relating : intersex/DSD and marginal bodies in the body of Christ
The hidden God mediated through flesh-taking : bodies human and divine
To be human is to be embodied
The end of male-and-female : Galatians 3:26-28
Barth, body and the significance of sex
Standing before Ggod as either/or : order and procession in human sex
Like the other animals : Barth's conflation of sex and gender
Psychologically narcissistic and theologically idolatrous Barth's elision of difference
Implications for human bodies in the body of Christ
The hegemony of the binary body
Jesus uncut : Christ's uncertain body
Inside-out : the ecstatic Eucharistic body
Bodily particularity : individually we are members one of another
Hagiography and narrative
Inscribed with texts : bodies as palimpsests
Emptying self of self : bodies and the kenosis of signification giving-up and giving-over
Disrupting the binaries bodies QUA bodies : some (provisional) conclusions
Reassigning and redefining : intersex/DSD and theologies from transgender
Some theological responses to transgender
Oliver O'Donovan
Fraser Watts
Rodney Holder
Issues in human sexuality
The Evangelical Alliance
Some issues in human sexuality
Transgender Christians
Transgender and Scripture
Transvestism
Eunicism
What does transgender threaten?
Changing sex : the real and the phantom
Male all along the historicity of individuals
Transgender as essentialism
Transgender as performativity
Remembering and re-membering : intersex and theologies from disability
Intersex and disability : areas of resonance
Perfect-ability : the problem of perfection in ability and in sex
Exacerbated disability and stigmatization : you shall not revile the deaf or put a stumbling-block before the blind
Disability in Scripture
Blemish, curse, confusion or blessing
Real worlds and the ideology of dominance
Perichoresis, particularity and pain
Sown in weakness, raised in power : the hope of healing
The resurrection body in Paul and Augustine
Paul and the body imperishable
Augustine and the Fathers
Rejecting erotic domination in the new creation
Resisting and reappropriating : intersex/DSD and queer theologies
Problematizing terms : queer and heteronormativity
Positionality, not positivity : the problems of defining queer
Provisional, multiple, eschatological : is intersex/DSD queer?
Queer theologies
Christophobia, violence, and birthing the divine
Truth-telling
Counter-cultural embodiment and transgressive sex
Lazarus, come out! : friendly strands
Autobiography and incarnation
Realizing and remaking : conclusions.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London, Oakville, CT
Series
Gender, theology, and spirituality

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
233/.5
Library of Congress
BT708 .C665 2010, BT708.C665 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
281

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23697289M
Internet Archive
sexuncertaintyin0000corn
ISBN 13
9781845536688
LCCN
2009035240
OCLC/WorldCat
946606306, 435800581

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