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Christianity Today 2025 Award of Merit (Academic Theology)
"A theologically sophisticated take on contentious contemporary debates about gender."--Christianity Today
In recent years, the issue of gender has become a topic of great importance and has generated discussion from the kitchen table to the academy. It is an issue that churches and Christian educational institutions are grappling with as well, since gender is a crucial aspect of identity, affecting how we engage socially and understand our embodiment. Upstream from all these conversations lies a more basic question: What is gender?
In Gender as Love, Fellipe do Vale takes a theological approach to understanding gender, employing both biblical exegesis and historical theology and emphasizing the role human love plays in shaping our identities. He engages with and explains current theories and debates, but his approach is unique in that it avoids the present impasse between social constructionist and biological essentialist paradigms. His emphasis is on love as identity forming.
This fresh, holistic approach makes an important contribution to the literature and will benefit scholars and students alike. Foreword by Beth Felker Jones.
Contents
Foreword by Beth Felker Jones
Part 1: The Landscape and Its Faults
1. What Does It Mean to Give a Theological Account of Gender?
1.1 Introduction: Contemporary Theological Discussion about Gender
1.2 Theological Theology Unpacked
1.3 Theologically Theological Anthropology and Theologies of Gender
2. Understanding the Social Construction of Gender
2.1 Contextualizing the View
2.2 The Metaphysics of the Social Construction of Gender
2.3 Objections to the Social Construction of Gender
2.4 The Social Construction of Sex: Judith Butler
2.5 Conclusion
Part 2: The Constructive Proposal
3. "What God Has Joined Together, Let No One Separate": Bodies and Culture in the Metaphysics of Gender
3.1 Expanding What We Mean by Culture and Nature
3.2 Witt and Mikkola on the Ontology of Gender
3.3 Four Theses on the Metaphysics of Gender and Their Theological Grounding
3.4 Conclusion
4. An Augustinian Theology of Human Love
4.1 Love, Identity, and an Apologia for Augustine
4.2 Augustine on Human Love
4.3 Conclusion
5. Gender as Love: A Theological Proposal
5.1 Integrating Claims
5.2 Sarah Coakley on Desire and Gender, with a Frankfurt-Style Critique
5.3 Gender as Love: The Model
5.4 Conclusion
Part 3: Gender in the Story of God
6. Gender in Creation
6.1 Introduction: The Narrative Indexing of Humanity
6.2 What Makes Creation Good?
6.3 Conclusion
7. Gender in Fall, Redemption, and Consummation
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Fall
7.3 Redemption
7.4 Consummation
7.5 Conclusion
Conclusion
Index
