For Nothing is Hidden

In a church and a world both riven with scandals of abuse and violence, often committed by men, there is an urgent need to delve deeper into the topics of masculinities and trauma that define them. Both critical theologies of masculinities and trauma theologies have a shared aim to reveal that which is hidden, to name and bring to light those things that are so often concealed. This collection seeks to uncover an intersection between the two: how masculinities and trauma intersect and influence each other in research, stories, and experiences of church and theology.

Spanning colonialism and ecology through eucharistic theology and models of ministry, For Nothing is Hidden draws together voices from a variety of disciplines and experiences to offer research and reflections, with chapters from Karen O’Donnell, Katie Cross, Andrew Graystone, Carlton Turner and Isabelle Hamley, plus a foreword from the Bishop of Newcastle, Dr Helen-Ann Hartley. If the church begins to take seriously the ways in which masculinities are produced and shaped, and how trauma can be experienced and understood, then there is an opportunity to offer a helpful contribution to the church’s contemporary conversations concerning abuse, safeguarding, and violence, with specific attention to gender.