Body and Gender

“Modernity has not become secularized because it has relied too much on what is earthly, but rather because it has expected too little of it.”

“[G]ender is a differentiated unity or a unified difference, and is both, so to speak, ‘all the way down’ to the core of the being.”

“The body is not merely inert, pre-moral ‘stuff’ awaiting the intervention of human freedom.”

“To already be something before an act of freedom suggests to the modern mind a loss of freedom rather than its ordination.”

“The theory of gender as a ‘social construct’ is one of the ways we ‘crucify’ our human nature—and those who speak for it.”

“The primary thing in Christian proclamation [is] helping [people] to enter into the presence of a God who loves us and who for precisely that reason is not indifferent to the way we live, including as sexual beings.”

“If before it was thought necessary to deny the other in order to be oneself, now one must be like the other in order to be oneself.”