Outputs (4)

"Being Creature, Becoming Human: Contesting Oliver O'Donovan on Transgender, Identity and the Body" (2018)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2018). "Being Creature, Becoming Human: Contesting Oliver O'Donovan on Transgender, Identity and the Body"

For Oliver O'Donovan, the 'transsexual' ignores their true form, willing to become the sex they are not. But to be gendered is to be caught up into becoming - not a strange idea for Christian theology.

"Gender Ideology: For a ‘Third Sex’ Without Reserve" (2018)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2018). "Gender Ideology: For a ‘Third Sex’ Without Reserve". Studies in Christian Ethics, 31(4), 471-482. https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946818793074

‘Gender ideology’ is a term used by many, but especially the Vatican, to chastise the view that sexual difference is more than just male and female, sexuality more than desire of the opposite. Each of the three books discussed in this article defends... Read More about "Gender Ideology: For a ‘Third Sex’ Without Reserve".

"Visible and Invisible: George Tyrrell and Christ's Bodies" (2018)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2018). "Visible and Invisible: George Tyrrell and Christ's Bodies". New Blackfriars, 99(1084), 729-739. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12402

Starting with the laying to rest of George Tyrrell’s body in an Anglican grave, outside the bounds of the Catholic Church, this article considers how Tyrrell could yet understood himself to be within the Church, within the body of Christ. Tyrrell dev... Read More about "Visible and Invisible: George Tyrrell and Christ's Bodies".

"Catholic Homophobia" (2018)
Journal Article
Loughlin, G. (2018). "Catholic Homophobia". Theology, 121(3), 188-196. https://doi.org/10.1177/0040571x17749147

Understanding homophobia as a discursively constituted antipathy, this article argues that the culture of the Catholic Church – as constituted through the Roman magisterium – can be understood as fundamentally homophobic, and in its teaching not just... Read More about "Catholic Homophobia".