Can a eunuch be baptized?: Insights for gender inclusion from Acts 8

In Acts 8 Philip baptizes an Ethiopian eunuch. In this article I note that the eunuch is someone who falls outside the gender binary of male and female. Although our gender questions are different to first-century ones, can the inclusion offered to the eunuch in baptism point us to a more inclusive...

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Autor principal: Percy, Emma (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: Sage [2016]
En: Theology
Año: 2016, Volumen: 119, Número: 5, Páginas: 327-334
Clasificaciones IxTheo:HC Nuevo Testamento
NBE Antropología
NBP Sacramento
NCF Ética sexual
RB Ministerio eclesiástico
Otras palabras clave:B Bibel. Apostelgeschichte 8
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Verlag)
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Sumario:In Acts 8 Philip baptizes an Ethiopian eunuch. In this article I note that the eunuch is someone who falls outside the gender binary of male and female. Although our gender questions are different to first-century ones, can the inclusion offered to the eunuch in baptism point us to a more inclusive stance in today’s church? Can this story speak to those who challenge gender binaries particularly intersex and transgender individuals, and can that challenge the Church to think beyond such binaries?
ISSN:2044-2696
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0040571X16647852