Thatcher 
Vile Bodies 
The Body in Christian Teaching, Faith and Practice

Vile Bodies are bodies that have been vilified by Christian thought, often with catastrophic consequences. The bodies of women, Jews, Muslims, slaves, Blacks, LGBT people, children, wives have all been harmed by negative Christian teaching about bodies. This book sidesteps the endless controversies in the churches about sexuality and gender and goes deeper – unmasking instead the abusive theology that ensures these controversies and their harmful outcomes persist. Drawing extensively from scripture, and from two millennia of church history and theology, Vile Bodies slowly exposes how churches have preferred doctrine to compassion, orthodoxy to justice, and legalism to love, culminating in the global abuse crises in the churches that have largely destroyed their moral credibility.

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Adrian Thatcher is Honorary Professor in the Department of Religion and Theology, University of Exeter, U.K. Author of 16 books and editor or co-editor of another five, he is managing editor of Modern Believing, a Trustee of Modern Church, and an Anglican.