Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16th @ 5:00PM 

Location: Pecky Cypress Room, Alumni House

Professor Adrian Thatcher (University of Exeter, UK) has written or edited 19 books mostly on theology and gender. This talk will be about his book of the same title, Redeeming Gender. 

He writes: “For 25 years I have been writing about theology and sexuality. Two principal issues have been the possibility of the accommodation of women’s bodies in masculine sacral and sacramental space (the ordination of women), and the possibility of the accommodation of same-sex desire within the modern two-sex binary (homosexuality). They have a common yet largely unnoticed root: gender. More recently the visibility and audibility of intersex and trans people tests this struggling binary still further. In this paper I will i) uncover the historical roots of the debilitating divisions within the churches about these issues; ii) issue challenges to conservative theologies and secular orthodoxies alike; and iii) show how a re-reading of basic Christian doctrines can produce the inclusive church that many Christians long for.”

When: Feb 16, 5:00 pm

Location: Pecky Cypress Room, Alumni House