TRS Research Seminar: Prof. Gerard Loughlin

Being creature, becoming human: bodies in transition

Prof. Gerard Loughlin, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Durham.

Abstract:

In this paper I read Judith Butler against Oliver O’Donovan on transgendered bodies. I attempt to show that in a certain sense she is a better theologian than he, because she does not seek to stabilize the movement of bodies and their desires against what they are called to be. Butler is open to a becoming that O’Donovan forecloses, and forecloses in the name of a contingent and counter-factual imagining of nature that occludes the one order theology does disclose: the movement of all being toward its end—and, in particular, the movement of human being toward God, the becoming other that theology names theosis. 

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