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Vile Bodies: The Body in Christian Teaching, Faith and Practice
Adrian Thatcher
SCM Press, 2023, pp.288, pbk, £35.
Vile Bodies is a well-researched, broad, yet potentially intimidating work that seeks to establish the role Christian theology and practice play in the abuse of those who have been marginalised. Adrian Thatcher looks to several areas of identity such as race, sexuality, and gender, drawing together historical and contemporary contexts to illustrate how an abusive bodily theology comes into being. To give an overview of the vast topics Thatcher illuminates in a short review would be impossible. Therefore, this review emphasises Thatcher’s core argument whilst highlighting certain key chapters.
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