Daniel R. Patterson is lecturer in theology at St. Trivelius Institute, Sofia, Bulgaria, and adjunct lecturer at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education, Perth, Australia.
"This lucid and timely book is a profound gift for the Christian
church. With great wisdom and skill, Patterson guides readers into
a genuine encounter with one of the seminal thinkers of our age. .
. . This book challenges our fear, disrupts our categories, and
jolts our theological imaginations out of tired ruts. Most of all,
this book models a posture of humility worthy of the gospel of
Christ."
--Sarah C.Williams, Regent College
"Patterson offers a unique, creative, and boundary-breaking
engagement with the avant-garde gender theorist Judith Butler; yet
he remains thoroughly biblical and Christocentric. . . . This is a
generous book, a boundary breaker and a bridge builder. . . . It is
full of wisdom for scholars and advanced students of theology open
to new ways of conceptualizing what it is that they believe."
--Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College
"Judith Butler is far and away the most important queer theorist of
the modern world, and her practical influence cannot be
underestimated. Most Christians have responded with withering
attacks or uncritical embraces. Daniel Patterson offers the first
patient, probing, and detailed theological analysis of her work.
This biblically and philosophically astute study usefully
introduces Butler's difficult body of work and is critical reading
for any church seeking to faithfully engage the turbulence of our
newly gender-fluid age."
--Brian Brock, University of Aberdeen
"If theological accounts of gender will succeed, they must be
characterized by at least two traits: first, they must engage a
complex set of interlocutors with patience, charity, and nuance;
and second, they must be sensitive to the rich ways the Christian
story of creation and redemption implicate our understandings of
the topic. Patterson's book exemplifies both of these traits
brilliantly in its interpretation of Judith Butler's work and in
its constructive theological proposal."
--Fellipe do Vale, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
"A persistent searching analysis of Judith Butler's influential
queer theory inspires the deepest reflections on subjectivity,
desire, violence, law, and embodied life. Patterson articulates
here a Christian vocation of gender that is transformed by her
critique whilst, in return, witnessing to another transformation
made possible in unity with Christ. This is an exemplary study in
discipleship in a contemporary context."
--Susan F Parsons, editor, Studies in Christian Ethics
"Patterson's meticulous book demonstrates a core Christian virtue
in action--how creative listening can be. Having heard Judith
Butler with charity, he returns to Christians and poses critical
questions that will press our contribution on this contentious
cultural issue into useful new spaces. This is the best theological
account of these issues I have yet encountered."
--Kevin Hargaden, Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice
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