The Genesis of Gender

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Carl is flying solo as host for today's podcast and—after a few moments of linguistic snobbery—finds time in his "shed-jule" to interview Abigail Favale. She's a professor at the University of Notre Dame and author of The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory. Dr. Favale explains that current "gender theory" finds its roots in feminist and postmodern thought, and is now reshaping language, law—perhaps even our own self-perceptions. Today's guest dares to define such words as "woman" and "man" and reminds us that biblical paradigms should lead Christians in how to live beyond cultural notions of gender identity. Ignatius Press provided three giveaway copies of Abigail's book, The Genesis of Gender. Our winners were Jason P. from Hudson, OH, Michael H. from Monterey, CA, and Jeffrey S. from Cary, NC. Congratulations!

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0:00.0	Today's podcast is sponsored by the Davenant Institute and Davenant Hall, reimagining theological education.
0:07.0	Visit davenanthall.com and hear more at the conclusion of this podcast. Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman and Todd Pruitt.
0:36.9	Mortification of Spin is a podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:41.7	Let's join this week's conversation.
0:58.2	Welcome to Mortification of Spin.
1:03.0	I'm your host, Carl Truman, professor in the Calderwood School of Arts and Humanities,
1:06.0	at Grove City College in beautiful western Pennsylvania.
1:12.2	Normally, I'm joined by my co-host, Todd Pruitt, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia, but unfortunately, Todd is not well today.
1:17.0	So for only the fourth or fifth time in about 12 or 13 years, I think, I'm going to be flying
1:22.6	solo.
1:23.4	And if you think that my solo performance is a massive improvement on when Todd's on the program,
1:29.2	please write in and tell the producers and maybe we can get him fired.
1:33.9	That is where we want to go with this little experiment.
1:38.3	Listeners will know, and those who read my stuff over the last couple of years will know that,
1:44.1	really, the last three or four years,
1:46.6	some of the people that have had most impact on the way that I think about many of the
1:51.3	contemporary cultural issues we're facing are actually Catholic women writers.
1:56.5	Erica Bakioki's book, The Rights of Women, had a huge impact on me when I read it two years
2:02.1	ago. And I actually nominated it when I was asked by a magazine, Name your Book of the Year.
2:07.5	It was Erica Bakioki's rights of women that I nominated. Last year, the same magazine asked
2:13.3	me to nominate the book of the year. And again, it was a very straightforward choice.
2:17.9	It wasn't Erica Bakioki this time. It was a book entitled The Genesis of Gender by Abigail Favale.
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