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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext In this volume, Sarah Coakley confronts a central paradox of theological feminism-what she terms 'the paradox of power and vulnerability'. Drawing together an essential collection of her work in this field. Powers and Submissions explores this theme, offering an original perspective on contemporary feminist thought. Gender theory has in recent years given an increasingly nuanced account of the worldly 'powers' that serve to stifle human flourishing. However, feminist theology ha been loath to acknowledge that form of surrender to divine 'power' which can alone sustain authentic human freedom, and chasten the abusive will to power in both women and men. Powers and Submissions tackles their question of how these narratives of divine and human 'powers' should be disentangled. Coakley examines this issue through the lens of spiritual practice, philosophical enquiry and doctrinal analysis, arguing that contemplative practice must be sustaining matrix of any truly liberative human empowerment. Powers and Submissions will be of interest to those working and studying in the fields of feminist theory, philosophy of religion, systematic theology and spirituality. Zusammenfassung Presents a central paradox of theological feminism. This title explores this theme! offering an original perspective on contemporary feminist thought. It is suitable for those working and studying in the fields of feminist theory! philosophy of religion! systematic theology and spirituality. 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: 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. ...
