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Zusatztext Thatcher has done an outstanding job in shaping this volume of forty-one chapters. It fully deserves to become a well-thumbed resource in every library which aspires to help educate Christian today. ... Hopefully, this excellent volume will go some way to helping the next generation of theologians to live and loveand thinkmore freely. Informationen zum Autor Professor 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). Klappentext This book provides a comprehensive overview of the theological study of sexuality and gender. It features sections on biblical, scientific, philosophical, historical, theological, and ethical understandings of sexuality and gender. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender presents an unrivalled overview of the theological study of sexuality and gender. These topics are not merely contentious and pervasive: they have escalated in importance within theology. Theologians increasingly agree that even the very doctrine of God cannot be contemplated without a prior grappling with each. Featuring 41 newly-commissioned essays, written by some of the foremost scholars in the discipline, this authoritative collection presents and develops the latest thinking in these areas.Divided into eight thematic sections, the Handbook explores: methodological approaches; contributions from neighbouring disciplines; sexuality and gender in the Bible, and in the Christian tradition; controversies within the churches, and within four of the non-Christian faiths; and key concepts and issues. The final, extended section considers theology in relation to married people and families; gay and lesbian people; bisexual people; intersex and transgender people; disabled people; and to friends. This volume is an essential reference for students and scholars, which will also stimulate further research. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Methods 1: Adrian Thatcher: Introduction 2: Elizabeth Stuart: The Theological Study of Sexuality 3: Tina Beattie: The Theological Study of Gender 4: Eugene Rogers: Doctrine and Sexuality 2. What Theologians Need to Know 5: Neil Messer: Contributions from Biology 6: Brendan Callaghan: Contributions from Psychology 7: Simon Coleman and Anna Stewart: Contributions from Anthropology 8: Marta Trzebiatowska: Contributions from Sociology 9: Cynthia Nielsen and Michael Barnes Norton: Contributions from Philosophy 10: Patrick S. Cheng: Contributions from Queer Theory 3. Sexuality and Gender in the Biblical World 11: Ken Stone: Marriage and Sexual Relations in the World of the Hebrew Bible 12: William Loader: Marriage and Sexual Relations in the New Testament World 13: Theodore Jennings: Same-sex Relations in the Biblical World 14: Colleen Conway: The Construction of Gender in the New Testament 4. Sexuality and Gender in Christian Tradition 15: Mathew Kuefler: Desire and the Body in the Patristic Period 16: Marilyn McCord Adams: Duns Scotus on the Female Body 17: Ruth Mazo Carras: Reproducing Medieval Christianity 18: Dyan Elliott: Chaste Bodies, Salacious Thoughts 19: John Witte, jr.: Sex and Marriage in the Protestant Tradition, 1500 - 1900 5. Controversies within the Church 20: Linda Hogan: Conflicts within the Roman Catholic Church 21: Jane Shaw: Conflicts within the Anglican Communion 22: William Kay and Stephen Hunt: Pentecostal Churches and Homosexuality 23: Andrew Goddard: Theology and P...
