Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics (Dec 2018)

Über die Verwirrungen hinsichtlich der Genderfrage oder braucht die römisch-katholische Kirche eine Reformation?

  • Susanne Moser

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 2

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On the Confusuions about the Gender Question or does the Roman Catholic Church need a Reformation? The main purpose of this article is to show that fivehundred years after Luther, the concept of gender bears the same power for reformation as Luther's theses did bevor. Through a discussion of the connection between the horrific cases of abuse in the catholic church and its anti-genderism it is pointed out, that, instead of using gender as a tool for preventing sexualized violence, catholic church attacks gender-studies as gender-ideology. In explaining the concept of gender in detail and by showing how power and sexuality is interwoven and hidden behind a veil of love mystic, it is made clear how the confrontation with gender would bring the necessary reform into the structures of the catholic church.

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