Scripts we live by: on inheriting canonical texts
In this article, I theorize the interpretation of harmful canonical texts with special reference to John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. As a result of the actions and rhetoric of some of its North American evangelical readers, the Institutes has come to function as an intellectu...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2019]
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Theology & sexuality
Jahr: 2019, Band: 25, Heft: 3, Seiten: 165-187 |
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/ Calvin, Jean 1509-1564, Christianae religionis institutio
/ Interpretation
/ Evangelikale Bewegung
/ LGBT
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| RelBib Classification: | HA Bibel KAG Kirchengeschichte 1500-1648; Reformation; Humanismus; Renaissance KDD Evangelische Kirche KDG Freikirche NCF Sexualethik VB Logik; philosophische Hermeneutik; philosophische Erkenntnislehre |
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Canon
B Queer Theory B the Institutes of the Christian Religion B Inheritance B reparative reading B Evangelicalism |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this article, I theorize the interpretation of harmful canonical texts with special reference to John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion. As a result of the actions and rhetoric of some of its North American evangelical readers, the Institutes has come to function as an intellectual foundation for certain expressions of modern homophobia. In conversation with Jacques Derrida on inheritance and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick on reparativity, I thus consider how queer evangelicals (especially those who wish to continue identifying themselves as such) ought to engage both Calvin's text, particularly, as well as, more generally, those other canonical texts that are sources of trauma. In so doing, I proffer a capacious view of interpretation as not only what one says but also how one lives. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5170 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13558358.2019.1658430 |