Adrian Thatcher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3866262 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Adrian Thatcher |
| NOMBRES | Adrian |
| APELLIDO | Thatcher |
| FIRMA | THATCHER A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-0259-037X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 18 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Vibrant Matter of the Eucharist
The article deploys some elements of New Feminist Materialism (NFM) to illuminate better the real presence of Christ in the eucharist. The elements are: distributive agency; vibrant matter; and networks and meshworks. The claim is made that they might prompt us to an enhanced appreciation of eucharistic worship
What’s New in Hebrew Bible Scholarship
Petruschka Schaafsma, Family and Christian Ethics
Gender and LLF
The framing of gender in LLF is discussed and an important gap is identified – real relations between women and men. The work is found to perpetuate a binary theological 'sex system' that lies at the root of the Churches' problems with sexuality and gender. Alternatively, when the idea of a gender continuum is introduced, the problems addressed in LLF are greatly eased
Animals, Agriculture and Theology
All contributors to the articles section of this edition are vegans. Two articles set out the theological case for consuming fewer meat and dairy products. As we read them perhaps we will want to examine how far down the road our informed consciences will take us towards avoiding these products altogether? Their essays are notable for their gentle, non-confrontational style. A third advocates for the rights of animals, while another uses activism…
Thia Cooper, Queer and Indecent
Mark D. Jordan, Transforming Fire
Marriage, the New Testament, and pastoral ministry
There is a diversity of teaching about marriage in the New Testament. Opening up this diversity provides a pastorally more generous, and theologically more adequate, understanding of marriage than claiming, and then finding, an alleged unanimity of view. The article considers, in chronological order, the teaching of Paul, the teaching of Jesus in the Gospels, and the teaching of the later Letters on marriage, acknowledging the differences.
Gender and Christian Ethics
In this book, Adrian Thatcher offers fresh theological arguments for expanding our understanding of gender. He begins by describing the various meanings of gender and depicts the relations between women and men as a pervasive human and global problem. Thatcher then critiques naive and harmful theological accounts of sexuality and gender as binary opposites or mistaken identities. Demonstrating that the gendered theologies of Hans Urs von Balthasa…
A Report From the Managing Editor
A Report From the Managing Editor
Margaret D. Kamitsuka, Abortion and the Christian Tradition
Linn Marie Tonstad, Queer Theology
Jennifer Beste, College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics
Thomas Petri, op, Aquinas and the Theology of the Body
Judaism
This article examines the hitherto unquestioned consensus in Judaic studies that Judaism embraces a positive attitude towards sexuality. Grounded in the new scholarly trends of cultural and gender analysis as well as feminist critique and their impact on Jewish studies, it singles out four focal issues: sexuality in ancient rabbinic thought, to which the most scholarly attention has been directed; and issues in modern Halakhah that have just begu…
Contributions from Philosophy
Gender, like race, is a controversial and volatile topic. We encounter one another as embodied and thus gendered beings. But what precisely is gender? What does it mean to be feminine? This chapter offers a philosophical analysis of the concept of gender and discourses about gender. The opening sections begin with a discussion of key terms and distinctions such as gender essentialism, gender as a social construction, the distinction between gende…
The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender
The Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality, and Gender offers an unrivalled overview of the theological study of sexuality and gender. This extensive volume, of 41 newly-commissioned essays, presents and develops the latest thinking in its area. Divided into eight thematic sections, the Handbook explores key methodological approaches in recent theologies of sexuality and gender, perspectives from other disciplines, reading and using scripture and…
The Theological Study of Sexuality
This article explores the key methodological approaches evident in theologies of sexuality since theological reflection upon sexuality emerged as a distinctive discipline in the latter part of the twentieth century. It charts the movement from a radical valorization of sexuality by conservative, liberal, and gay and lesbian theologians to a fundamental questioning and rejection of the very notion of sexuality. It argues that there is a need for C…
Reproducing Medieval Christianity
This chapter examines three ways in which ideas about reproduction loomed large in medieval Christian culture: its relation to ideas about sexuality and nature, the somewhat overlapping topic of its relation to the sacrament of marriage, and the use of fictive parenthood or reproductive metaphors in Christian thought. Medieval Judaism is used as a point of comparison to highlight what is, or is not, distinctive about Christianity. The chapter arg…
Pentecostal Churches and Homosexuality
Historically, the majority of Pentecostal churches stem from holiness and revivalistic streams of Christianity, while neo-Pentecostal churches are often indigenous plantings that broke away from congregations established by earlier Protestant mission. Given their stress on religious experience and their belief in the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit, Pentecostal churches have always stressed individual holiness, and this holiness is understood…
Hiv/Aids
This chapter examines how sex figures in the HIV/AIDS pandemic and how the pandemic may be understood in the light of God’s extravagance and hope for the future. Sex is one of those gifts that human beings have received at the hands of a God of extravagance: a God of infinite possibility, copious generosity, and unparalleled solidarity. The very creation is a manifestation of a fecund imagination and God’s own joy writ large enough to witness sex…
Families
The first part of the chapter, ‘Sources’, consists of an overview of various theological accounts of families, drawn from Roman Catholic official teaching, from the Protestant Family, Religion, and Culture project, and from a range of other sources. The second part, ‘Themes’, analyses and compares the sources, allowing standard and contested issues to surface. The issues include the analogy between divine and human persons: the designation of fam…
Conflicts Within the Black Churches
This essay examines conflicts concerning sex, sexuality, and gender within Black churches. Black churches are American Protestant churches with a predominantly Black leadership and congregation. Often serving the oppressed and underprivileged, Black churches have a history not only of providing for the spiritual needs of Black Americans, but also of fighting for social justice. Increasingly, controversies have begun to emerge within these churche…
Theology and Practice in Evangelical Churches
This chapter examines the continuities, development, and diversity found among evangelical Christians as they explore different patterns of evangelical response to new and challenging questions relating to sexuality and gender. Evangelicals have generally accepted contraception although there has been some recent opposition. Understandings and responses to divorce and remarriage vary from prohibition to generous accommodation with general accepta…
Wives and Husbands
The chapter provides an overview of recent developments in the theology and ethics of marriage. It places the debates first in a sociocultural context of deinstitutionalization and individualization which has rendered marriage more optional and more fragile, but not weakened its symbolic meaning. It is then shown how the Christian churches have responded to the challenges of late modern society, in particular the Roman Catholic Church with its ne…
Pre-Marital Sex in America
Pre-Marital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying MARK REGNERUS & JEREMY UECKER, 2011 New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press viii + 295 pp., US$24.95, £15.99
Education and the Concept of a Person
Journal Article Education and the Concept of a Person Get access Adrian Thatcher Adrian Thatcher Correspondence: Adrian Thatcher, The College of St Mark and St John, Derriford Road, Plymouth PL6 8BH. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Philosophy of Education, Volume 14, Issue 1, June 1980, Pages 117–128, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9752.1980.tb00547.x Published: 30 May 2006
The Personal God and a God who is a Person
If one believes in a personal God, must one also believe that God is a person? I hold that the former is essential to Christian faith, the latter an impediment to it. Several recent writers in the philosophy of religion have however assumed that to believe in God is to believe in a person. The most subtle and influential proponent of ‘bodiless person theism’ is Richard Swinburne. I hope to show that this philosophical presentation of theism is un…
Learning to become persons'? ‐ Three approaches examined
Learning to Become Persons'? - Three Approaches Examined
Setting Up a Quality Support Unit
In June 1990 I was asked by the Principal of the College of St. Mark and St. John to set up an Academic Quality Support Unit. Extensive discussion about important policy issues at the preliminary stage saved time and enabled the Unit to start work efficiently and immediately. First I describe some of the policy issues. Next I describe the Unit's aims and comment on them. Finally I describe the Unit's operation and comment on some operational diff…
Radical Christian Spirituality
Sex Education 'after Modernity'
The first section of this article provides a critical appraisal of recent government guidance on sex and relationship education in England, and identifies a number of contradictions and omissions within it. Typical of these is the failure to discuss the contribution that spiritual development might make to sex and relationship education. The second section adds an overt Christian theological analysis to the critique, demonstrating that even in po…
Sex Education 'after Modernity'
The first section of this article provides a critical appraisal of recent government guidance on sex and relationship education in England, and identifies a number of contradictions and omissions within it. Typical of these is the failure to discuss the contribution that spiritual development might make to sex and relationship education. The second section adds an overt Christian theological analysis to the critique, demonstrating that even in po…
Living Together and Christian Ethics
Living Together and Christian Ethics is the first positive, in-depth study of cohabitation outside marriage from a mainstream Christian theological perspective. The book retrieves the traditions of betrothal from the Bible and church history, and shows how these can transform Christian attitudes to living together before marriage. A crucial distinction is made between prenuptial cohabitation where marriage is intended, and nonnuptial cohabitation…
Living Together and Christian Ethics (New Studies in Christian Ethics)
Theology and Children
All over the world the neglect of children is a horrendous crime against them. This paper does not tackle physical child-neglect, instead, it accuses Christian theology of neglecting children. One way the church can be child-friendly is to advocate and practice lifelong, egalitarian marriage. There is overwhelming evidence that children are more likely to flourish when they are brought up by their biological parents.1 The implication is clear: th…
Theology and Families (Challenges in Contemporary Theology)
Theology and Families
The Savage Text
Thinking Through the Death of God
Pre-Marital Sex in America
Pre-Marital Sex in America: How Young Americans Meet, Mate, and Think about Marrying MARK REGNERUS & JEREMY UECKER, 2011 New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press viii + 295 pp., US$24.95, £15.99
The Theological Study of Sexuality
This article explores the key methodological approaches evident in theologies of sexuality since theological reflection upon sexuality emerged as a distinctive discipline in the latter part of the twentieth century. It charts the movement from a radical valorization of sexuality by conservative, liberal, and gay and lesbian theologians to a fundamental questioning and rejection of the very notion of sexuality. It argues that there is a need for C…
Reproducing Medieval Christianity
This chapter examines three ways in which ideas about reproduction loomed large in medieval Christian culture: its relation to ideas about sexuality and nature, the somewhat overlapping topic of its relation to the sacrament of marriage, and the use of fictive parenthood or reproductive metaphors in Christian thought. Medieval Judaism is used as a point of comparison to highlight what is, or is not, distinctive about Christianity. The chapter arg…
Pentecostal Churches and Homosexuality
Historically, the majority of Pentecostal churches stem from holiness and revivalistic streams of Christianity, while neo-Pentecostal churches are often indigenous plantings that broke away from congregations established by earlier Protestant mission. Given their stress on religious experience and their belief in the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit, Pentecostal churches have always stressed individual holiness, and this holiness is understood…
Hiv/Aids
This chapter examines how sex figures in the HIV/AIDS pandemic and how the pandemic may be understood in the light of God’s extravagance and hope for the future. Sex is one of those gifts that human beings have received at the hands of a God of extravagance: a God of infinite possibility, copious generosity, and unparalleled solidarity. The very creation is a manifestation of a fecund imagination and God’s own joy writ large enough to witness sex…
Families
The first part of the chapter, ‘Sources’, consists of an overview of various theological accounts of families, drawn from Roman Catholic official teaching, from the Protestant Family, Religion, and Culture project, and from a range of other sources. The second part, ‘Themes’, analyses and compares the sources, allowing standard and contested issues to surface. The issues include the analogy between divine and human persons: the designation of fam…
Conflicts Within the Black Churches
This essay examines conflicts concerning sex, sexuality, and gender within Black churches. Black churches are American Protestant churches with a predominantly Black leadership and congregation. Often serving the oppressed and underprivileged, Black churches have a history not only of providing for the spiritual needs of Black Americans, but also of fighting for social justice. Increasingly, controversies have begun to emerge within these churche…
Theology and Practice in Evangelical Churches
This chapter examines the continuities, development, and diversity found among evangelical Christians as they explore different patterns of evangelical response to new and challenging questions relating to sexuality and gender. Evangelicals have generally accepted contraception although there has been some recent opposition. Understandings and responses to divorce and remarriage vary from prohibition to generous accommodation with general accepta…
Contributions from Queer Theory
This chapter provides an overview of what Christian theologians need to know about queer theory, which is a critical approach to sexuality and gender that challenges the ‘naturalness’ of identities. Based upon developments in queer theory since the early 1990s, the chapter proposes the following four marks of queer theory: (1) identity without essence; (2) transgression; (3) resisting binaries; and (4) social construction. The chapter then discus…
Bisexual People
Although bisexuals make up over half of sexual minority people, theology has not adequately addressed the experiences of bisexual people, nor the bisexual theory and theology that we have produced. The diversity and social locations within which concepts of bisexual theory, such as compulsory monosexism, emerge are described, drawing on data from psychology and the social sciences. Through a systematic review of Christian discourse on bisexuality…
Sociology (35 obras) · Philosophy (32 obras) · Gender Studies (23 obras) · Theology (18 obras) · Human sexuality (15 obras) · Political science (15 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Epistemology (13 obras) · Religion, Society, and Development (13 obras) · Law (11 obras)