Coakley Powers and Submissions

Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69268-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Challenges in Contemporary Theology

In this book Sarah Coakley confronts a central paradox oftheological feminism - what she terms 'the paradox of power andvulnerability'.
* * Confronts a central paradox of theological feminism -what Coakley terms 'paradox of power and vulnerability'.
* Explores this issue through the perspective of spiritualpractice, philosophical enquiry and doctrinal analysis.
* Draws together an essential collection of Sarah Coakley's workin this field.
* Offers an original perspective into contemporary feministtheology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coakley, Sarah

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements.
Preface.
Prologue: Powers and Submissions.
Part I: The Comtemplative Matrix.
1. Kenosis and Subversion: On the Repression of "Vulnerability"in Christian Feminist Writing.
2. Traditions of Spiritual Guidance: Dom John Chapman OSB(1865-1933) on the Meaning of "Contemplation".
3. Creaturehood Before God: Male and Female.
Part II: Philosophical Interlocutions.
4. Visions of the Self in Late Medieval Christianity: SomeCross-Disciplinary Reflections.
5. Gender and Knowledge in Modern Western Philosophy: The "Manof Reason" and the "Feminine Other" in Enlightenment and RomanticThought.
6. Analytic Philosophy of Religion in Feminist Perspective: SomeQuestions.
Part III: Doctrinal Implications.
7. "Persons" in the "Social" Doctrine of the Trinity: CurrentAnalytic Discussion and "Cappadocian" Theology.
8. The Resurrection and the "Spiritual Senses": On Wittgenstein,Epistemology and the Risen Christ.
9. The Eschatological Body: Gender, Transformation and God.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Coakley is Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Professor of Divinity at Harvard University. She previously taught at Oriel College, Oxford, and at the Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University. She is the author of Christ Without Absolutes (1988); the editor (with David A. Pailin) of The Making and Remaking of Christian Doctrine (1991), and editor of Religion and the Body (1997). She is currently working on a systematic theology, the first volume of which will appear as God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity' (forthcoming).