Episode #199 - Gender as Love with Dr. Fellipe do Vale

In this episode we are joined by Dr. Fellipe do Vale, who is Department Chair & Assistant Professor of Biblical and Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and he’s the author of Gender as Love: A Theological Account of Human Identity, Embodied Desire, and Our Social Worlds (published by Baker Academic). Over the course of our conversation, Dr. do Vale explains how his theological approach to gender studies aims to get past the binary of essentialism and social constructivism to the issue of love, using Augustine as a guide for thinking about how gender stems from our deepest loves. Team members on the episode from The Two Cities includes: Dr. John Anthony Dunne and Dr. Madison Pierce. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.