Description
Vile Bodies are bodies that have been vilified by Christian thought, often with catastrophic consequences. The bodies of women, Jews, Muslims, slaves, Blacks, LGBT people, children, wives have all been harmed by negative Christian teaching about bodies. This book sidesteps the endless controversies in the churches about sexuality and gender and goes deeper - unmasking instead the abusive theology that ensures these controversies and their harmful outcomes persist.
Drawing extensively from scripture, and from two millennia of church history and theology, Vile Bodies slowly exposes how churches have preferred doctrine to compassion, orthodoxy to justice, and legalism to love, culminating in the global abuse crises in the churches that have largely destroyed their moral credibility.
Author: Adrian Thatcher
Publisher: SCM Press
Published: 11/30/2023
Pages: 290
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.65d
ISBN13: 9780334063605
ISBN10: 0334063604
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Christian Theology | General