Scripts we live by: on inheriting canonical texts
In this article, I theorize the interpretation of harmful canonical texts with special reference to John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. As a result of the actions and rhetoric of some of its North American evangelical readers, the Institutes has come to function as an intellectu...
| Published in: | Theology & sexuality |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2019]
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Theology & sexuality
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible
/ Calvin, Jean 1509-1564, Christianae religionis institutio
/ Interpretation of
/ Evangelical movement
/ LGBT
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| RelBib Classification: | HA Bible KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KDD Protestant Church KDG Free church NCF Sexual ethics VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Canon
B Queer Theory B the Institutes of the Christian Religion B Inheritance B reparative reading B Evangelicalism |
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| Summary: | In this article, I theorize the interpretation of harmful canonical texts with special reference to John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. As a result of the actions and rhetoric of some of its North American evangelical readers, the Institutes has come to function as an intellectual foundation for certain expressions of modern homophobia. In conversation with Jacques Derrida on inheritance and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on reparativity, I thus consider how queer evangelicals (especially those who wish to continue identifying themselves as such) ought to engage both Calvin's text, particularly, as well as, more generally, those other canonical texts that are sources of trauma. In so doing, I proffer a capacious view of interpretation as not only what one says but also how one lives. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2019.1658430 |