Gender as Love – A Theological Account of Human Identity, Embodied Desire, and Our Social Worlds

Fellipe do Vale (PhD, Southern Methodist University) is assistant professor of biblical and systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He specializes in the juncture where theological anthropology and moral theology meet and has published widely on gender, ethics, and systematic theology. He lives in the Chicago area with his family.

Foreword by Beth Felker Jones
Part 1: The Landscape and Its Faults
1. What Does It Mean to Give a Theological Account of Gender?
1.1 Introduction: Contemporary Theological Discussion about Gender
1.2 Theological Theology Unpacked
1.3 Theologically Theological Anthropology and Theologies of Gender
2. Understanding the Social Construction of Gender
2.1 Contextualizing the View
2.2 The Metaphysics of the Social Construction of Gender
2.3 Objections to the Social Construction of Gender
2.4 The Social Construction of Sex: Judith Butler
2.5 Conclusion
Part 2: The Constructive Proposal
3. "What God Has Joined Together, Let No One Separate": Bodies and Culture in the Metaphysics of Gender
3.1 Expanding What We Mean by Culture and Nature
3.2 Witt and Mikkola on the Ontology of Gender
3.3 Four Theses on the Metaphysics of Gender and Their Theological Grounding
3.4 Conclusion
4. An Augustinian Theology of Human Love
4.1 Love, Identity, and an Apologia for Augustine
4.2 Augustine on Human Love
4.3 Conclusion
5. Gender as Love: A Theological Proposal
5.1 Integrating Claims
5.2 Sarah Coakley on Desire and Gender, with a Frankfurt-Style Critique
5.3 Gender as Love: The Model
5.4 Conclusion
Part 3: Gender in the Story of God
6. Gender in Creation
6.1 Introduction: The Narrative Indexing of Humanity
6.2 What Makes Creation Good?
6.3 Conclusion
7. Gender in Fall, Redemption, and Consummation
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Fall
7.3 Redemption
7.4 Consummation
7.5 Conclusion
Conclusion
Index