Bodies, Souls, and Being Unmoored from History
Abigail Favale on the risks of devaluing the body
This week, I’m mulling over an essay by Abigail Favale, a writer and professor, whose latest book, Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, is on my to-read list. The essay unpacks a particular form of Gnosticism (the idea that matter is evil and freedom is found through the mind or spiritual realm) that she observed growing up in an e…