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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | What is the difference between sex and gender? What does the Bible tell us about sex and |
0:06.8 | gender and how is that different from the dominant narrative of our culture? |
0:10.8 | How should Christians relate to those in the midst of gender dysphoria? |
0:14.0 | Join us as we answer these questions more with our guest today, Dr. Abigail Favale, |
0:19.0 | as a result of her new book called The Genesis of Gender. |
0:22.0 | I'm your host Scott Ray. |
0:24.0 | I'm your co-host Sean McDow. |
0:26.0 | And this is ThinkBiblically from tablet school theology at Biola University. |
0:30.0 | Abigail, welcome, glad to have you with us. |
0:32.8 | You have such an interesting personal journey involved in your study of gender specifically. |
0:38.6 | That forms a big part of the backstory here. |
0:41.0 | Tell us about where that journey started and sort of where you are today. |
0:44.0 | Sure. So I was raised as an evangelical Protestant and when I went to college at a Christian |
0:50.8 | school I became really interested in feminism and gender and social justice. |
0:57.0 | I was a philosophy major, I had lots of questions, and I was, I think I was personally invested in wanting to understand my own dignity as a woman. |
1:06.8 | What does it mean to be a woman? |
1:08.3 | I had this sense that there was something meaningful and important about that. |
1:12.6 | And that's when I started studying feminism |
1:15.6 | a little more intensively. |
1:17.7 | And then I graduated and went on to graduate school, |
1:22.3 | studying literature but also feminist theory and gender theory and also some kind of religious thought and theology thrown in there. |
1:31.0 | And so over the course of my 20s I developed this expertise in gender theory and feminist theory. |
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