Within contemporary orthodoxy, debates over sex and gender have
become increasingly polemical over the past generation. Beginning
with questions around women’s ordination, arguments have expanded
to include feminism, sexual orientation, the sacrament of marriage,
definitions of family, adoption of children, and care of
transgender individuals. Preliminary responses to each of these
topics are shaped by gender essentialism, the idea that male and
female are ontologically fixed and incommensurate categories with
different sets of characteristics and gifts for each sex. These
categories, in turn, delineate gender roles in the family, the
church, and society. Gender Essentialism and Orthodoxy offers an
immanent critique of gender essentialism in the stream of the
contemporary Orthodox Church influenced by the “Paris School”
of Russian émigré theologians and their heirs. It uses an
interdisciplinary approach to bring into conversation patristic
reflections on sex and gender, personalist theological
anthropology, insights from gender and queer theory, and modern
biological understandings of human sexual differentiation. Though
these are seemingly unrelated discourses, Gender Essentialism and
Orthodoxy reveals unexpected points of convergence, as each line of
thought eschews a strict gender binary in favor of more open-ended
possibilities. The study concludes by drawing out some theological
implications of the preceding findings as they relate to the
ordination of women to the priesthood, same-sex unions and
sacramental understandings of marriage, definitions of family, and
pastoral care for intersex, transgender, and nonbinary
parishioners.
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