Embodied Justice: Gender, Sexuality, Disability, Church and Politics

Abstract

Within the area of Lutheran theology and ethics, recent scholarship has shed light on important horizons in gender, sexuality, politics and church. Five articles in this edition of Dialog (Lowe, Latour, Streufert, Micale and Lahtinen) address the ethics of consent, LGBTQ+ religious trauma, reproductive justice and the intersections of abortion politics with work and disability studies. They connect interdisciplinary methods to Lutheran theology, history, ethics and ecclesiology in order to develop relational and embodied understandings of justice. In particular, they ask how the Lutheran tradition addresses consent, moral agency, abortion access, disability and ecclesial or ecological justice in distinctive ways. They address questions such as: How does Lutheran theological language engage themes of gender and sexuality justice in diverse contexts? How might Lutheran themes contribute to, be challenged by, or transformed with perspectives from diverse and intersectional politics?