Vile Bodies are bodies that have been vilified by Christian thought, often with catastrophic consequences. The bodies of women, Jews, Muslims, slaves, Blacks, LGBT people, children, wives have all been harmed by negative Christian teaching about bodies. This book sidesteps the endless controversies in the churches about sexuality and gender and goes deeper - unmasking instead the abusive theology that ensures these controversies and their harmful outcomes persist. Drawing extensively from scripture, and from two millennia of church history and theology, Vile Bodies slowly exposes how churches have preferred doctrine to compassion, orthodoxy to justice, and legalism to love, culminating in the global abuse crises in the churches that have largely destroyed their moral credibility.
Blogpost: Adrian Thatcher tell us that bodies matter
| ISBN: | 9780334063605 |
| Publication date: | 30th November 2023 |
| Author: | Adrian Thatcher |
| Publisher: | SCM Press an imprint of Hymns Ancient & Modern |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Genres: |
Christian life and practice |
Vile Bodies are bodies that have been vilified by Christian thought, often with catastrophic consequences. The bodies of women, Jews, Muslims, slaves, Blacks, LGBT people, children, wives have all been harmed by negative Christian teaching about bodies. This book sidesteps the endless controversies in the churches about sexuality and gender and goes deeper - unmasking instead the abusive theology that ensures these controversies and their harmful outcomes persist. Drawing extensively from scripture, and from two millennia of church history and theology, Vile Bodies slowly exposes how churches have preferred doctrine to compassion, orthodoxy to justice, and legalism to love, culminating in the global abuse crises in the churches that have largely destroyed their moral credibility.
Blogpost: Adrian Thatcher tell us that bodies matter
Vile Bodies features in the following genres: Christian life and practice
Vile Bodies is available in Paperback
Vile Bodies was written by Adrian Thatcher and published by SCM Press an imprint of Hymns Ancient & Modern
Vile Bodies has 288 pages