Eucontamination: Disgust Theology and the Christian Life

Author:   Paul Hoard ,  Billie Hoard
Publisher:   Cascade Books
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9798385213726


Pages:   234
Publication Date:   01 September 2025
Format:   Paperback
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Eucontamination: Disgust Theology and the Christian Life


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For too long, Christianity has been distorted by an overapplied purity-disgust metaphor: fueling exclusion, reinforcing fear, and enabling Christian Nationalism. Eucontamination challenges this toxic framework, arguing that Jesus did not retreat from impurity but transformed it. This interdisciplinary work weaves together psychology, psychoanalysis, theology, and sociology to expose how disgust has shaped Christian witness--from theological education to church exclusion and social scapegoating. But there is a better way. The authors propose that Christ is not fragile in the face of sin but a ""good infection,"" a force that spreads healing and redemption. Instead of protecting a brittle purity, true faith embraces eucontamination--a sanctifying engagement with the world, not a retreat from it. For Christians seeking a faith that resists exclusion and embraces radical love, Eucontamination offers a vision of transformation--one where Truth, Life, and the Way are not delicate things to be defended but powerful forces moving through and within us all.

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Author:   Paul Hoard ,  Billie Hoard
Publisher:   Cascade Books
Imprint:   Cascade Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.331kg
ISBN:  

9798385213726


Pages:   234
Publication Date:   01 September 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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Paul Hoard is associate professor of counseling psychology at The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. Billie Hoard is a trans woman, a high school history teacher, and something of an Anabaptist radical.

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