Introduction: Body and Gender
Summer 2016
Body and Gender (photocopy)
“The Flesh Is of No Avail”: Theology of the Body as Necessary to Understanding Life in the Spirit
José Granados“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.”
Perfect Difference: Gender and the Analogy of Being
D. C. Schindler“[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 Spirit of Christian Doctrine
Nicholas J. Healy Jr.“The body is not merely inert, pre-moral ‘stuff’ awaiting the intervention of human freedom.”
Public Reason and the Anthropology of Orientation
David S. Crawford“To already be something before an act of freedom suggests to the modern mind a loss of freedom rather than its ordination.”
Gender Ideology and the Humanum
Margaret H. McCarthy“The theory of gender as a ‘social construct’ is one of the ways we ‘crucify’ our human nature—and those who speak for it.”
Sexuality and the Forgetfulness of God: Unseasonal Thoughts about a Biblical Connection
Stefan Oster“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.”
Forbidden Difference
Tony Anatrella“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.”