Christian accounts of male and female are often limited in the degree to which they engage with sources outside of the Bible and the Christian theological tradition. Yet, in the absence of such engagement, our perception of the Christian teaching can be distorted; it can be regarded as an alien imposition upon nature and society, rather than as something that operates with the grain of creation and serves to illuminate it.
The course will study ways in which a Christian account of the sexes can engage both receptively and critically with an array of fields of enquiry, from philosophy to anthropology to the natural sciences.