The Kindness of God: Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language

ISBN-13: 9780198269519 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 224 str.

Janet Martin Soskice

Opis

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.

Recenzje

very accessible book...Soskice throws off many provocative insights...The book opens perspectives on matters of central theological importance which it will be rewarding to revisit.

O autorze

Janet Martin Soskice is Reader in Philosophical Theology, University of Cambridge.