Statistically Ordered: Gender, Sexual Identity, and the Metaphysics of "Normal"

The recent call by Pope Francis for the church to develop a "theology of women" raises more fundamental and prior questions about the very nature of gender and sexual identity. Drawing on the metaphysics developed in Lonergan's Insight and his heuristic structure of a scale of values...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:  
Bibliographische Detailangaben
VerfasserInnen: Heaps, Jonathan (VerfasserIn) ; Ormerod, Neil 1954- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
Verfügbarkeit prüfen: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Lade...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Veröffentlicht: Sage Publ. [2019]
In: Theological studies
Jahr: 2019, Band: 80, Heft: 2, Seiten: 346-369
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Geschlechterforschung / Geschlechtsidentität / Sexuelle Orientierung / Lonergan, Bernard J. F. 1904-1984 / Metaphysik
RelBib Classification:FD Kontextuelle Theologie
KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit
KDB Katholische Kirche
NBE Anthropologie
NCF Sexualethik
VA Philosophie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Bernard Lonergan
B gender essentialism
B Sexual Identity
B Metaphysics
B Gender
B gender theory
Online Zugang: Volltext (Resolving-System)
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:The recent call by Pope Francis for the church to develop a "theology of women" raises more fundamental and prior questions about the very nature of gender and sexual identity. Drawing on the metaphysics developed in Lonergan's Insight and his heuristic structure of a scale of values found in Method in Theology, this article explores these prior questions in a way that avoids the extremes of either gender essentialism or of complete gender fluidity. It proposes a form of heteronormativity that is statistically structured allowing for a greater flexibility than suggested by gender essentialism, while still constraining the social and cultural construction of gender within certain biological realities. The authors also present Lonergan's scale of values as a further heuristic for anticipating the force of this constraint in a differentiated way.
ISSN:2169-1304
Enthält:Enthalten in: Theological studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0040563919836194