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Borderline: Reflections on War, Sex, and Church

Borderline: Reflections on War, Sex, and Church


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In his sharp, observant book, Stan Goff grapples with a problem crucial to modern Christian values. The sanctification of war and contempt for women are both grounded in a fear that breeds hostility, a hostility that valorises conquest and murder. In 'Borderline', Goff dissects the driving force behind the darkest impulses of the human heart. The un-Christian history of loving war and hating women are not merely similar but two sides of the same coin, he argues, in an 'autobiography' that spans two millennia of war and misogyny. 'Borderline' is the personal and conceptual history of an American career army veteran transformed by Jesus into a passionate advocate for nonviolence, written by a man who narrates his conversion to Christianity through feminism.

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Amy Laura Hall Preface Acknowledgments 1 - Introduction 2 - My Acquaintance with a Christian Soldier and Serial Rapist 3 - Forest Troop 4 - Body Counts 5 - Ontology of the Witch Hunt 6 - Ecologies of Power 7 - The Rise of the Lawyers 8 - Misbegotten Man 9 - Eros and War 10 - Practice Makes Perfect 11 - The Masculine Fortress 12 - Torture and Redemption 13 - The Pope's Army 14 - Sleepwalking 15 - Genealogy 16 - Bodies and Objects 17 - Contagious Prefix 18 - Just, Civil, and Total War - Sanctification of State 19 - A Bodyguard of Lies: Girl Story and Boy Story 20 - Origin Myths 21 - Paradox of Domination 22 - Disgust, Transgression, and Sex 23 - Respectability 24 - Progress and Fear of the Feminine 25 - Shell Shock 26 - Nation, Race, and Hygiene 27 - The Art of Depression 28 - Homos and Harlots 29 - Second World War 30 - Bombs, Babies, and 'Burbs 31 - The Herd 32 - Taboo 33 - Consent 34 - Clarifications Bibliography Index of Names Index of Biblical References

About the Author :
Stan Goff spent most of the final three decades of the twentieth century as a soldier-most of that in what is euphemistically called "special operations." Sometimes a writer, sometimes an "activist," sometimes a husband, dad, and granddad, and sometimes a gardener, he lives in southeast Michigan and is a member of the St. Mary of Good Counsel parish of the Roman Catholic Church.

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"Goff's unique experiences enable him to narrate this story (often with lurid details and 'salty' language that may make some readers uncomfortable) from a rare perspective that few civilians could access on their own. It cannot be easily dismissed as a flaccid, pacifist indulgence in an over-realised eschatology. Rather than relegate justice to the 'sweet by and by', Goff's account gives Christians sufficient cause (and the tools with which) to interrogate contemporary accounts of gender and warfare." -Shawn Aghajan, Studies in Christian Ethics, Vol. 29 No. 3, August 2016 "Stan Goff's striking book - part memoir, part theological investigation of masculinity, part psychodynamic analysis of sex and war - .... is a relentless take-down of belief in redemptive violence, and war's ennobling character. .... [It] deserves a place on Christian Ethics, Feminist Studies, and War Studies courses." -The Revd Rachel Mann, Church Times, February 2017


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780718894078
  • Publisher: James Clarke & Co Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Lutterworth Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 470
  • Weight: 696 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0718894073
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jul 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Reflections on War, Sex, and Church
  • Width: 153 mm


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