Powers and submissions : spirituality, philosophy, and gender
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Powers and submissions : spirituality, philosophy, and gender
（Challenges in contemporary theology）
Blackwell Publishers, 2002
- : pbk
Available at 2 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In this book Sarah Coakley confronts a central paradox of theological feminism - what she terms 'the paradox of power and vulnerability'.
Confronts a central paradox of theological feminism - what Coakley terms 'paradox of power and vulnerability'.
Explores this issue through the perspective of spiritual practice, philosophical enquiry and doctrinal analysis.
Draws together an essential collection of Sarah Coakley's work in this field.
Offers an original perspective into contemporary feminist theology.
Table of Contents
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: Some Cross-Disciplinary Reflections.
5. Gender and Knowledge in Modern Western Philosophy: The "Man of Reason" and the "Feminine Other" in Enlightenment and Romantic Thought.
6. Analytic Philosophy of Religion in Feminist Perspective: Some Questions.
Part III: Doctrinal Implications.
7. "Persons" in the "Social" Doctrine of the Trinity: Current Analytic 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.
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