Kreationismus und Anti-Gender. Über Schöpfungstheologie und moralisches Unbehagen

Wirth, Mathias (2023). Kreationismus und Anti-Gender. Über Schöpfungstheologie und moralisches Unbehagen. Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kirche, 120(2), pp. 216-233. Mohr Siebeck 10.1628/zthk-2023-0010

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Aspects of creationism directly concerning moral action are left unexplored when creationism is taken as a synonym for the seven-day procedure. It is therefore astonishing that creationism is not primarily linked to Genesis 1:27b. When non-binary sexuality is discredited by appealing to the Book of Genesis, as is increasingly done by anti-gender advocates on the fringes of Christianity and right-wing politics, this entails considerable theological and anthropological limitations of perspective, because a text about gender equality is used to provide supposed legitimacy for contempt. Although it is true that the denigration of non-binary gender has a variety of sources, an important one remains the conceptualization of creation in Gen 1.27b. This verse has become a »Kulturem« notoriously invoked by anti-gender advocates due to its alleged support for protecting the (supposedly) classical family and, correspondingly, the normative uniqueness of gender dualism. However, anyone who derives an iconic conception of humanity from Genesis and its portrayal of male and female will only superficially find providential certainty concerning cis-heteronormative bodies and practices in the ordering logic of the first creation text of the Bible. As this study shows, widespread reservations about contingently non-conforming sexuality are based on a creationist reading of the Hebrew Bible's staging of the initial appearance of human beings. This form of creationism in Gen 1.27b, with its exaggeration of the religious and normative status of gender dualism, is more intricate than the seven-day creationism found in the same context, because the latter usually has no immediate consequences for specific people and their bodies.

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