In my many “field trips” to churches and conversations with other Christians, I come across arguments that the humanity of Jesus is tied into his masculinity in such a way that people (usually implicitly, though my blogs above are about an explicit version of the argument) deny the full humanity of particularly people whose sexuality isn’t easily boxed into “male” and “female”…and, in a further implicit way, deny the full humanity of women, as well.

Now, I think there are ways to look at the Christology that don’t require defining humanity in terms of sexuality in such a negative way. Luce Irigiray and other feminists have written creatively at length in response, and queer theology is a growing movement in response, too. So this is a very exciting way of looking at the Christology, I think, that deserves a shout-out precisely BECAUSE we need Jesus to be “taken up” with God, for God to be changed…because if God needs a “full human being” to be taken up into God’s presence…if God needs a PERFECT human being to be taken up into his presence, what would that “perfection” look like, and what would we use to define it?