God is the creator of all life and the energy of this world: German intersex Christians' reflection on the image of God and being created in God's image
Intersex individuals are often told they are not human beings because they do not neatly fit into the categories of female and male. Many are made to feel like monsters. Christianity enforces this model of sexual dimorphism with the notion that to be a human being means to be created clearly fe...
| Published in: | Theology & sexuality |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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| In: |
Theology & sexuality
Year: 2018, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 85-97 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Christian
/ Intersexuality
/ Idea of God
/ Image of God
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| IxTheo Classification: | KBB German language area NBC Doctrine of God NBE Anthropology NCF Sexual ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Intersex
B Images of God B Multiplicity B obscene Christs B sexual polymorphism |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Intersex individuals are often told they are not human beings because they do not neatly fit into the categories of female and male. Many are made to feel like monsters. Christianity enforces this model of sexual dimorphism with the notion that to be a human being means to be created clearly female or clearly male in the image of God. This paper draws on interviews with German intersex Christians to explore their diverse images of God and what it means to be created in God's image with the goal of creating new conditions of possibility that represent the full range of human sex/gender. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2018.1463643 |