Un/familiar Theology
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Un/familiar Theology

Reconceiving Sex, Reproduction and Generativity

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Un/familiar Theology

Reconceiving Sex, Reproduction and Generativity

About this book

Through engagement with theologies of adoption, pro-natalism, marriage, and queer theology, Susannah Cornwall figures developments in models of marriage and family not as distortions of or divergences from the divinely-ordained blueprint, but as developments already of a piece with these institution's being. Much Christian theological discussion of family, sex and marriage seems to claim that they are (or should be) unchanging and immaculate; that to celebrate their shifting and developing natures is to reject them as good gifts of God. However models of marriage, family, parenting and reproduction have changed and are still, in some cases radically, changing. These changes are not all a raging tide to be turned back, but in continuity with goods deeply embedded in the tradition. Alternative forms of marriage and family stand as signs of the hope of the possibility of change. Changed institutions, such as same-sex marriage, are new beginnings with the potential to be fruitful and generative in their own right. In them, humans create new imaginaries which more fully acknowledge the interactive nature of our relationships with the world and the divine.

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Information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9780567685841
eBook ISBN
9780567673275
Edition
1
Subtopic
Theology

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. 1. Introducing Un/familiar Theology
  8. 2. Generativity: The Disruption of Biological Origins
  9. 3. The Content of Marriage: Two and Only Two?
  10. 4. Natality: Reproduction and the Possibility of New Beginnings
  11. 5. Adopting Our Own: Worldless Newcomers or Children of a Common God?
  12. 6. Full Quivers and the Diversities of Generativity
  13. 7. Un/familiar Institutions: Repetition and Difference
  14. 8. Conclusion
  15. References
  16. Index