Eugene F Rogers

Sexuality and the Christian Body

Their Way Into the Triune God

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sexuality and the Christian Body addresses the challenges to traditional Christianity by gay and lesbian Christians and their critics within the church. This controversial book will be welcomed for the radical new insights it provides into Christian arguments about the body. Rogers starts by offering description and rigorous analysis of both conservative and liberal conceptions of the body within the church, exposing similarities between apparently opposing positions. Drawing on the work of Barth, Geertz, Aquinas and others, he then goes on to constructively reconnect doctrines like incarnation, election, and resurrection with race, gender and sexual orientation. In a final section he offers arguments for the fittingness in the Christian tradition of marriage-like homosexual relationships.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Open Stax Textbooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 151mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9780631210696
• ISBN-10: 0631210695
• Artikelnr.: 22169836

Autorenporträt

Eugene F. Rogers is Assistant Professor of Philosophical Theology in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

Part I: Orientation in the Debates: Sexuality and the Peopleof God.

1. The Politics of the People of God.

2. The Identity of the People of God. Contrary to Nature.

3. The Holiness of the People of God: Monogamy andMonasticism.

Part II: Retrieving Traditional Accounts: Aquinas andBarth.

4. The Storied Context of the Vice against Nature: Retrieving aNarrative.

5. Nature and Justice when Science and Scripture Conflict:Retrieving a Narrative. 6. Karl Barth on Jews and Gender: APreliminary Critique.

7. Unintended Abstraction in Barth's Doctrine of Israel:Retrieving a Doctrine of the Spirit.

8. Unintended Abstraction in Barth's Account of Gender:Retrieving Co-Humanity.

Part III: The Way of the Body into the Triune God.

9. Creation, Procreation, and the Glory of the Triune God.

10. Eros and Philanthropy.

11. The Shape of the Body and the Shape of Grace.

12. Hostility and Hospitality.

13. The Narrative of Providence and a Charge for a Wedding.

Bibliography.

Index.

Rezensionen

"This is the most sustained, serious and original theological workon sexuality and in particular same-sex relationships to haveappeared for many years. As in Barth, thoughtful, theologicalconservations lead to a radical and liberating stance. This bookmay well turn a debate that often is no more than the marshallingof untheological prejudices in a constructive and responsibledirection." Duncan B. Forrester, University of Edinburgh

"Both sides of the gay marriage debate will benefit from thisstartlingly original and theologically rich treatment of the gracedbody. Here are Christian traditions not slavishly reproduced butput to a genuinely radical use." Kathryn Tanner, University ofChicago

"Eugene Rogers has produced a serious and illuminating study ofthe controversial issue of sexuality that can be read with profitby all sides in this sometimes bitter debate......Rogers haswritten an important book that deepens our understanding ofmarraige as well as contributing to the current debate onsexuality."Bishop Paul Richardson

"This is an unusual, challenging and important book, which makesa powerful theological case for same-sex marriage...The mainstrength of the book lies, however, in its uncompromisingengagement with Paul's letter to the Romans and the twin ethicaldiscourses, natural law and divine command, that locate evil inhomosexual activity." Modern Believing

"This is an extremely good book. Rogers's argument...istheologically informed, carefully constructed and powerfullypresented at every turn. It should be widely read, for there ismuch of great value." Stephen R. Holmes, Journal of TheologicalStudies

"This is a work of some theological richness, subtlety andscope, which is - for that very reason - notably free from thefamiliar dogmatisms and polemicizing that cloud the debate onhomosexuality. It is tempting to conclude that, if there is aserious theological case to be made for same-sex marriage, this isit." Studies in Christian Ethics

"This study deserves the careful attention of anyone who isinterested in identifying and understanding the foundations onwhich a biblically-informed Christian sexual ethic must rest."Pro Ecclesia

"Sexuality and the Christian Body shows a youngtheologian at work on a central dilemma of our day, a Christian whobrings to his vocation scholarly rigor, moral and intellectualimagination, and, supremely, great theological passion. These aregreat gifts, and we can look forward eagerly to more." TheologyToday