Constructive Theology and Gender Variance: Transformative Creatures

ISBN-13: 9781108496315 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 300 str.

Susannah (University of Exeter) Cornwall

Opis

Reframes gender variance and transition in positive, non-oppositional terms, informed by Christian constructive theologies of creation and personhood.

Spis treści

Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Introduction: transformative creatures; 2. Detransition, impermanence, and the innocence of changing one's mind; 3. Existing Christian theological responses to transition: being transformed/being, transformed; Part II. Telling Truths: 4. Autonomy and trans people: authenticity, responsibility, recognition; 5. Gender transition, truth-telling and artifice; 6. Self-protection or 'gender fraud'? Ethics and the burden of disclosure; Part III. Limits, Technology, and Health: 7. Technological interventions and licit limits: on the alteration and augmentation of bodies; 8. Trans people, health, and diversities of order; 9. Fertility, generativity, and gender theology in the operative mood; 10. Transforming humanity: gender, race, and animality; 11. In Christ, everything has changed: Christology and creation; 12. Transformative creatures reprised: theological anthropology and eschatology.