Recent political strategies are using transgender people and their lives as a wedge issue to whip up fear and anxiety among voters. Below I've gathered a list of resources for understanding the issues and cutting through the anti-trans talking points offered in the media and by politicians.
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Archives for theological anthropology
Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy: Beyond Male and Female
I'm pleased to announce that my first book will soon be released May 16, 2023!
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New Book: Orthodox Tradition and Human Sexuality
Sex is a difficult issue for contemporary Christians, but the last decade has witnessed a new-found openness regarding the topic among Eastern Orthodox Christians.
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Gender Essentialism in Contemporary Orthodox Conversations on Homosexuality
Gender-essentialist interpretations of these Genesis passages are an exercise in question-begging: they assume that the essentialism modern readers point to is, indeed, a feature of the texts themselves. However, this is not the case.
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Bridging Voices Project Links
A collection of links related to the Bridging Voices: Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Identity and the Challenges of Pluralism and Sexual Diversity in a Secular Age project.
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Nature, Person, Gender: An Anthropological Postscript
Following Lossky’s metaphysics, sex and gender are not hypostatic (personal), but rather are characteristic of our common human nature.
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Origins of Contemporary Orthodox Gender Essentialism
Gender essentialism in contemporary Orthodoxy has its roots in a variety of sources that were incorporated into nineteenth-century German Romanticism. These include the androgyne of Plato’s Symposium, ideas of preincarnate male and female paired souls in Lurianic Kabbalah, and the writings of the German mystic Jakob Böhme.
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Male, Female, and Transgender: Notes from Theological Anthropology
Scripture, tradition, reason, and experience do not speak univocally. While their reports may vary, these sources emphasize the dignity of the human person, created in the image of God.
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Orthodoxy, Sexuality, Gender: The State of the Conversation
A presentation outlining the current state of the broader academic Orthodox conversation about theological anthropology, gender, and sexuality.
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Difference & Identity – a class discussion
In Being Human, a course on theological anthropology, I had to present some observations on the second half of Ian McFarland's Difference & Identity: A Theological Anthropology[1] and lead a class discussion. What follows is the written presentation and the questions I used to start the class discussion.
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