Interrupting a Gendered, Violent Church

Interrupting a Gendered, Violent Church

Dispatches: Turning Points in Theology and Global Crisis

Anna Mercedes
Fortress Press, 2022
ISBN 9781506431598

Softcover, 174 pp.
6.9 X 5.0 X 0.4 inches | 0.3 pounds

This project brings readers into conversation at the intersections of gender studies and Christian theology--particularly diverse feminist and queer theologies. Interrupting a Gendered, Violent Church develops over three parts to an extended essay that points to the real ways churches foster violence around gender. This volume discusses this violent reality while also exploring church as a nexus for resistance to gender-based violence and sketches the contours of a Christian theology mapped apart from patriarchal heteronormativity's hold on late modern Christian life.

The goal of the Dispatches series is to offer a genuinely creative and disruptive theological-ethical ressourcement for church in the present moment. Volumes illuminate and explore, creatively and concisely, the implications and relevance of theology for the global crises of late modernity. Our authors have been invited to introduce succinct and provocative arguments intended to provoke dialogue and exchange of ideas, while setting in relief the implications of theology for political and moral life.

Anna Mercedes is professor of theology in the College of Saint Benedict of Saint John's University. Her teaching and research take up feminist theology and gender as well as various loci in systematic theology. She is author of Power For: Feminism and Christ's Self-Giving (T&T Clark, 2011).