Redeeming Gender

by Adrian Thatcher

Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches' energies are really about gender. The dominant understanding of women's bodies in the Christian West has been that they are inferior versions of the superior male body. This 'one-sex model' of the human body was replaced during the Enlightenment with a model of two opposite sexes. However, both models are inadequate for a theological or a secular understanding...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198744757
• ISBN13: 9780198744757
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.6"