The Kindness of God

Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language

AvJanet Martin Soskice

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Fathers, sons, brothers, kings. Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? If Christ is 'the second Adam' and the one on whom all Christian life must be patterned, then what about Eve? This book from a leading scholar of religious language and feminism opens up the Bible's imagery for sex, gender, and kinship and does so by discussing its place in the central teachings of Christian theology: the doctrine of God and spirituality, Imago Dei and anthropology, Creation, Christology and the Cross, the Trinity, and eschatology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-10-02
Mått:135 x 202 x 17 mm
Vikt:233 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:214
Förlag:OUP OXFORD
ISBN:9780198269502

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Recensioner i media

When I began to read The Kindness of God, I could scarcely put it down... The book maintains a marvelous tone. Its manner is kind. It belabors nothing... The tone constructs both the author and the readeras people with interests, who care, who seek to understand something without heat. Everywhere there prevails a light touch. A light touch is such a rare thing... Soskice's scholarly voice is nearly unique. She shares with Thomas Aquinas the virtue of arguing with ideas, while leaving her opponents unnamed... The Kindness of God treats the... fraught topic of God and gender with a range, delight, and finesse that no one else, as far as I can think, could manage.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction ; 1. Love and Attention ; 2. Imago Dei ; 3. Creation and Relation ; 4. Calling God 'Father' ; 5. Blood and Defilement: Christology ; 6. Trinity and the 'Feminine Other' ; 7. The Kindness of God: Trinity and the Image of God in Julian of Norwich and Augustine ; 8. Friendship ; Postscript: Eschatological Anthropology: Being Lovely