A meme floating around social media in response to a day-one executive order from the second Trump administration claims that “All embryos begin by developing female sex organs, with male sex organs only replacing them around 6 weeks of gestation.” From X, Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) Based on this understanding of development, the meme claims, “Under Trump’s executive order, every single person...
What is the role of gender in Eastern Christianity? In this volume, Orthodox experts of different disciplines and cultural backgrounds tackle this complex question. They engage critically with gender issues within their own tradition.
Recent political strategies are using transgender people and their lives as a wedge issue to whip up fear and anxiety among voters. Below I've gathered a list of resources for understanding the issues and cutting through the anti-trans talking points offered in the media and by politicians.
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A collection of links related to the Bridging Voices: Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Identity and the Challenges of Pluralism and Sexual Diversity in a Secular Age project.
Following Lossky’s metaphysics, sex and gender are not hypostatic (personal), but rather are characteristic of our common human nature.
Gender essentialism in contemporary Orthodoxy has its roots in a variety of sources that were incorporated into nineteenth-century German Romanticism. These include the androgyne of Plato’s Symposium, ideas of preincarnate male and female paired souls in Lurianic Kabbalah, and the writings of the German mystic Jakob Böhme.
A presentation outlining the current state of the broader academic Orthodox conversation about theological anthropology, gender, and sexuality.
Butler proposes that even our ideas around biological sex are as conditioned by cultural discourses as our concepts of gender.
In his presentation titled The Sleep of Adam, the Making of Eve: Sin and Creation in Eriugena,[*] Donald Duclow explores the gendering of humanity as related in John Scottus Eriugena's Periphyseon, with particular attention to some Eriugenian innovations on the theme. In many ways Periphyseon draws on previous works including those of Gregory of Nyssa[1] and Maximus Confessor. Yet John...