Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy

E. Rich Bryce

Description

Within contemporary orthodoxy, debates over sex and gender have become increasingly polemical over the past generation. Beginning with questions around women's ordination, arguments have expanded to include feminism, sexual orientation, the sacrament of marriage, definitions of family, adoption of children, and care of transgender individuals. Preliminary responses to each of these topics are shaped by gender essentialism, the idea that male and female are ontologically fixed and incommensurate categories with different sets of characteristics and gifts for each sex. These categories, in turn, delineate gender roles in the family, the church, and society.Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy offers an immanent critique of gender essentialism in the stream of the contemporary Orthodox Church influenced by the "Paris School" of Russian migr theologians and their heirs. It uses an interdisciplinary approach to bring into conversation patristic reflections on sex and gender, personalist theological anthropology, insights from gender and queer theory, and modern biological understandings of human sexual differentiation. Though these are seemingly unrelated discourses, Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy reveals unexpected points of convergence, as each line of thought eschews a strict gender binary in favor of more open-ended possibilities.The study concludes by drawing out some theological implications of the preceding findings as they relate to the ordination of women to the priesthood, same-sex unions and sacramental understandings of marriage, definitions of family, and pastoral care for intersex, transgender, and nonbinary parishioners.

Sujets

• Eastern Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 16 mai 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781531501556
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

Gender Essenîalîsm and orhôdôxy

Orhôdôx Chrîsîanîy and Cônempôrary Thôugh

S E R I E S E D I TO R S Ashley M. Purpura and Aristotle Papanikolaou

Hŝ ŝééŝ çôŝŝŝ ô ôôŝ à ŝéé ô  Oôô Cŝà ô à éàéé  çôéôà ôŝ ô ôû. ïŝ ôà ŝ ô ôôé (1) ŝôçà ŝûéŝ  Oôô Cŝà à àé éŝçà, éô à àé ô éôŝ, à ŝéà ô çôéôà ŝŝûéŝ; à (2) çôŝûçé éôôçà àûéŝ  çôéŝàô  àŝç ŝôûçéŝ à à ôçûŝ ô çôéôà qûéŝôŝ à ô é àôà éôôçà à ôŝôçà ééŝ ô Gô à ûà é ô çû- ûà, ôçà, éçôôç, à éçà çôçéŝ. Hé ôôŝ  é ŝééŝ éôé ô é ééàç ô Oôô Cŝà ô çôéôà çàééŝ à é àç ô çôéôà ôéŝ ô ôû ô Oôô ŝé-ûéŝàŝ.

Gender Essenîalîsm and orhôdôxy Beyond Male and Female

bryçe E. Rîçh

F O R D H A M U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S New York • 2023

Cô©2023ôàUéŝéŝŝ

Ā ŝ éŝéé. ô à ô ŝ ûçàô à é éôûçé, ŝôé  à ééà ŝŝé, ô àŝé  à ô ô  à éàŝ—ééçôç, éçàçà, ôôçô, éçô, ô à ôé—éçé ô é qûôàôŝ  é ééŝ, ôû é ô éŝŝô ô é ûŝé.

ôà Uéŝ éŝŝ àŝ ô éŝôŝ ô é éŝŝéçé ô àççûàç ô URŝ ô ééà ô -à ïéé éŝéŝ ééé ô  ŝ ûçàô à ôéŝ ô ûààéé à à çôé ô ŝûç éŝéŝ ŝ, ô  éà, àççûàé ô àôàé.

ôà Uéŝ éŝŝ àŝô ûŝéŝ ŝ ôôŝ  à àé ô ééçôç ôàŝ. Śôé çôé à àéàŝ   à ô é àààé  ééçôç ôôŝ.

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é  é Ué Śàéŝ ô Āéçà

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Lîst o Abbrevîatîons

cônens

PART I

1 Śé é Śàé 2 (ô) Màé à éàé: Réçàûà àŝç RéLéçôŝ ô Géé 3 Géé Éŝŝéàŝ  Côéôà Oôô Hôû 4 éŝô, Géé, Śé, Śéûà

PART II 5à é éŝôô Wôé 6 ôôŝéûà 7 Mààé: Hé Śàçàé ô ôé 8 Śôé à Hôûŝ ô àŝôà Càé Côçûŝô

Notes Bîbîograpy ïndex

v

vîî

3

18 56 92

123 135 145 164 177

181 233 255

Ad. aer. Ad. Herm. Ad. op.

Agr. Amb. Anîma An. et res. Antîrretîcî

Autoycum Bon. conj. C. Eun. C. Faust. man. CD Cap. pî. Car. Nîs. Cîv. Deî Coatîo

Arevîaîôns

Adversus aereses,ïéàéûŝ ô ôŝ Adversus Hermogenum, éûà Adversus oppugnatores vîtae monastîcae, Jô Cŝôŝô De agrîcutura, ô ô Āéàà Ambîgua,Màûŝ Côéŝŝô De anîma, éûà De anîma et resurrectîone, Géô ô ŝŝà Antîrretîcî adversus îconomacos, Héôôé é Śûé Ad Autoycum, Héôûŝ ô Āôç De bono conjugaî, Āûûŝé ô ô Contra Eunomîum,Géô ô ŝŝà Contra Faustum manîcaeum,Āûûŝé ô ô Curc Dogmatîcs,Kà à Capîta pîosopîca, Jô ô Dààŝçûŝ Carmîna Nîsîbena,Éé é Śà De cîvîtate Deî contra paganos,Āûûŝé ô ô Coatîo egum mosaîcarum et romanarum,Héôôŝûŝ é Géà

vîî

vîîî

Com. Ep. Com. Gen. Cones. Conî. ad. Const. om.

Dîa. Tryp. Dîd. apost. Doctrîna Ep. Ep. Greg. Ep. Leo. Ep. Smyrn. Exposît. Gen. ad ît. Gen. c. Man. Hîst. an. Herm. pas. Hom. în Ep. Hom. în Gen.

Hom. în Joan. Hom. în Rom. Hom. mart. Ju. Hom. op. Hom. Pe. ïï Hymn. ecc. Hymn. par. ïncarnatîone

Leg. aegor.

Ā b b r e v î a t î o n s

Commentarîum în Epîstoam ad Epesîos, Jéôé Commentarîum în Genesîm, Éé é Śà Conessîones,Āûûŝé ô ô De conîugîîs aduterînîs, Āûûŝé ô ô Sermones în constîtutîonem omînîs secundum îmagînem Deî, Āàŝàŝûŝ ô Śà Dîaogus cum Trypone, Jûŝ Mà Dîdascaîa apostoorum De doctrîna crîstîana, Āûûŝé ô ô Epîstuae,àôûŝ àûôŝ àŝ ôé Epîstua ad Gregorîum, Géô ô ŝŝà Epîstua canonîca ad Leotîum, Géô ô ŝŝà Epîstua ad Smyrnaeos, ïàûŝ ô Āôç Exposîtîo Ideî, Jô ô Dààŝçûŝ De Genesî ad îtteram, Āûûŝé ô ô De Genesî contra Manîcaeos, Āûûŝé ô ô Hîstorîa anîmaîum, Āŝôé Hermae pastor Homîîae în Epîstoam ad Epesîos, Jô Cŝôŝô Homîîae în Genesîm/, Oé ô Āéàà Āûûŝé ô ô Homîîae în Joannem, Jô Cŝôŝô Homîîae în Epîstoam ad Romanos, Jô Cŝôŝô Homîîa în martyrem Juîttam, àŝ ô Càéŝàéà De omînîs opîIcîo,Géô ô ŝŝà Homîîa ïï în S. Peagîam, Jô Cŝôŝô Hymnî de eccesîa, Éé é Śà Hymnî de paradîso, Éé é Śà De încarnatîone Verbî de Deî, Āààŝûŝ ô Āéàà Legum aegorîarum,ô ô Āéàà

Lîb. arb. Lîb. c. Eut.

Ma. cog. Mîgratîone Nat. om. Opî. Paed. Paradîso Perîpys. Pas. SS. Serg. Pas. SS. Perp. PG PL Praescrîp. Prîncîp. Reutatîo S. Dros. SS. Bern. et Pros. So. Spîr. Strom. Symp. Symp. dec. vîrg.

Tîm. Trîn.

Usu part. Vîrg. Vît. contemp.

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De îbero arbîtrîo, Āûûŝé ô ô Lîber de persona et duabus naturîs contra Eutycen et Nestorîum, ôéûŝ De maîgnîs cogîtatîonîbus, Éàûŝ ô ôûŝ De mîgratîone Abraamî, ô ô Āéàà De natura omînîs, ééŝûŝ ô Ééŝà De opîIcîo mundî, ô ô Āéàà Paedogogus, Céé ô Āéàà De paradîso, Āôŝé ô Mà Perîpyseon,Jô Śçôûŝ Éûéà Passîo SS. Sergîî et Baccî Passîo SS. Perpetuae et Feîcîtatîs Patroogîa Graeca, Mé Patroogîa Latîna, Mé De praescrîptîone aeretîcorum, éûà De prîncîpîîs,Oé ô Āéàà Reutatîo omnîum aeresîum, ôûŝ ô Rôé De S. Drosîde martyre,Jô Cŝôŝô De SS. Bernîce et Prosdoce,Jô Cŝôŝô Soîoquîa,Āûûŝé ô ô De Spîrîtu sancto, àŝ ô Càéŝàéà Stromata, Céé ô Āéàà Symposîum, àô Symposîum sîve convîvîum decem vîrgînum, Méôûŝ ô Oûŝ Tîmaeus, àô De trînîtateô, Āûûŝé ô ô / Rçà Ś. çô, àŝ çàé De usu partîum, Gàé De vîrgînîtate, Jô Cŝôŝô De vîta contempatîva, ô ô Āéàà

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