Sex and uncertainty in the body of Christ
Subtitle: intersex conditions and Christian theology
By: Susannah Cornwall.
Series: Gender, theology, and spirituality
Publisher: Equinox Pub. Ltd; Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781845536688
Subjects: Sex -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Introducing intersex/DSD; title: Existing theological work on intersex/DSD; title: Theological themes : justice, speakability and dubious goods; title: Methodology; title: Reflecting and reproducing : the history of intersex; title: Inadequate models; title: The pre-modern period : anatomy, appearance and a priori beliefs; title: The sixteenth to nineteenth centuries : regulation, classification, taxonomy; title: The twentieth century : money, reimer and the early surgery paradigm; title: The 1990s onwards : politics, protest and calls for change; title: The rise of support and advocacy groups; title: Controversial nomenclature : intersex versus DSD and beyond; title: Good enough genitals : the use of moral language for intersex; title: Why all the unsolicited attention : corrective surgery as stigmatizing; title: Outing the outcomes : follow-up studies and access to information; title: Reconstructing perfection : the restitution narrative; title: Relinquishing and relating : intersex/DSD and marginal bodies in the body of Christ; title: The hidden God mediated through flesh-taking : bodies human and divine; title: To be human is to be embodied; title: The end of male-and-female : Galatians 3:26-28; title: Barth, body and the significance of sex; title: Standing before Ggod as either/or : order and procession in human sex; title: Like the other animals : Barth's conflation of sex and gender; title: Psychologically narcissistic and theologically idolatrous Barth's elision of difference; title: Implications for human bodies in the body of Christ; title: The hegemony of the binary body; title: Jesus uncut : Christ's uncertain body; title: Inside-out : the ecstatic Eucharistic body; title: Bodily particularity : individually we are members one of another; title: Hagiography and narrative; title: Inscribed with texts : bodies as palimpsests; title: Emptying self of self : bodies and the kenosis of signification giving-up and giving-over; title: Disrupting the binaries bodies QUA bodies : some (provisional) conclusions; title: Reassigning and redefining : intersex/DSD and theologies from transgender; title: Some theological responses to transgender; title: Oliver O'Donovan; title: Fraser Watts; title: Rodney Holder; title: Issues in human sexuality; title: The Evangelical Alliance; title: Some issues in human sexuality; title: Transgender Christians; title: Transgender and Scripture; title: Transvestism; title: Eunicism; title: What does transgender threaten?; title: Changing sex : the real and the phantom; title: Male all along the historicity of individuals; title: Transgender as essentialism; title: Transgender as performativity; title: Remembering and re-membering : intersex and theologies from disability; title: Intersex and disability : areas of resonance; title: Perfect-ability : the problem of perfection in ability and in sex; title: Exacerbated disability and stigmatization : you shall not revile the deaf or put a stumbling-block before the blind; title: Disability in Scripture; title: Blemish, curse, confusion or blessing; title: Real worlds and the ideology of dominance; title: Perichoresis, particularity and pain; title: Sown in weakness, raised in power : the hope of healing; title: The resurrection body in Paul and Augustine; title: Paul and the body imperishable; title: Augustine and the Fathers; title: Rejecting erotic domination in the new creation; title: Resisting and reappropriating : intersex/DSD and queer theologies; title: Problematizing terms : queer and heteronormativity; title: Positionality, not positivity : the problems of defining queer; title: Provisional, multiple, eschatological : is intersex/DSD queer?; title: Queer theologies; title: Christophobia, violence, and birthing the divine; title: Truth-telling; title: Counter-cultural embodiment and transgressive sex; title: Lazarus, come out! : friendly strands; title: Autobiography and incarnation; title: Realizing and remaking : conclusions.