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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Archives for Vladimir Soloviev
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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Russian Orthodox & Queer
My hat is off to Victor de Villa Lapidis for his letter, sharing some of the trials of being gay and Orthodox while also fanning the embers of hope through the remembering of Russia's queer* Orthodox sons: Soloviev, Gogol, Brianchaninov, Leontiev, Tchaikovsky, Florensky...
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