Mere Fidelity The Genesis of Gender, with Dr. Abigail Favale
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Feb 16, 2023 Dr. Abigail Favale joins a lively discussion on how modern ideas about gender developed, and how they relate to sex, human nature, and Christian understandings of creation. The conversation also explores gender’s role in social life, tensions within contemporary theories, contraception, and the challenges of pastoral care and everyday language.
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Essence of the Gender Paradigm
- The gender paradigm is a framework that replaces a creator-based world with human self-creation and denies fixed human nature.
- It views reality, identity, and sex as social constructs shaped by language and institutional power.
Judith Butler's Gender Theory Impact
- Gender traditionally meant social expression of biological sex but theory evolved to claim even biological sex is constructed.
- Judith Butler's work transformed gender into a "Pac-Man monster" swallowing sex, leading to current confusion.
Social Expression of Humanity
- Human identity is always socially expressed; artificial constructions like language and clothing are essential to our humanity.
- These social constructs, while artificial, are necessary expressions of biological sex and human nature.