Emerging as Affirmative Pastoral Caregivers Beyond Gender Binaries: Gender Creative Promise

Craig A. Rubano

doi:10.5771/9781666934021

Summary

Emerging as Affirmative Pastoral Caregivers Beyond Gender Binaries: Gender Creative Promise uniquely brings a gender diverse theological imagination to the field of pastoral theology, supplemented by deploying a “gender creative” interpretative lens on scripture. The reader is introduced to an array of persons diverse in their gender variance, four continua of gender (sex, identity, expression, attraction), a gender affirmative psychotherapeutic model as a template for the field of pastoral theology, common resilience strategies that transgender persons employ in the face of cultural oppression and aspersion, benefits derived from religious affiliation that can enhance resilience, and scripturally-based principles for delivering affirmative pastoral caregiving beyond gender binaries. The author encourages readers to look within and wrestle with the complexities of their own gendered selves while journeying alongside him to emerge as pastoral change-makers in their places of teaching, ministry, and caregiving.

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-66693-401-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-3402-1
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 216
Product Type: Monograph

1. List of Illustrations No access
1. 1. An Instrumental Authorial “I” for Pastoral Theology No access
  2. The Instrumental “I” as Investigator No access
  3. Going Forward No access
  4. Notes No access
2. 1. Transgender Emergence No access
  2. Gender Creativity No access
  3. Part One Coda No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. Notes No access
2. 1. Anatomical Sex No access
  2. Gender Identity No access
  3. Gender Expression No access
  4. Attraction No access
  5. All Together Now No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. From Diagnoses to Advocacy No access
  2. The “True Gender Self” No access
  3. Part Two Coda No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. Common Resilience Strategies for Transgender Persons No access
  2. Pastoral Practice No access
  3. Notes No access
2. 1. 1. Two Sociobiological Missions of Religion and Their Fruits No access
    2. The Sociocultural “Mission” of Religion and Its Fruits No access
  2. Notes No access
3. 1. The Field of Pastoral Theology No access
  2. Opening Doors No access
  3. Part Three Coda No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. The Imaging of God No access
  2. Finding One’s Self in Biblical Interpretation No access
  3. Notes No access
2. 1. Principle 1: God Creates Gender Variance as Part of God’s Creation (Genesis 1:26–28a) No access
  2. Principle 2: Bodies and Lives are Cocurated with God Over Time (Genesis 2:7, 18–24) No access
  3. Principle 3: Callings May Lead Outside of Gender Roles and Norms (Matthew 19:3–6; 10–12) No access
  4. Principle 4: All Belong to God (Galatians 3:24–29) No access
  5. An Excursus on “Male” and “Female” No access
  6. Principle 5: Words Cannot Contain God (Apophatic Theology) No access
  7. Gender Creative Pastoral Principles and Strategies of Resilience No access
  8. Notes No access
3. 1. Part Four Coda No access
  2. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 191 - 208
Index No access Pages 209 - 214
About the Author No access Pages 215 - 216