Sarah Coakley

God, Sexuality, and the Self

An Essay 'on the Trinity'

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A creative new venture in systematic theology which tackles the intrinsic relation of God and 'sexuality'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 388
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 713g
• ISBN-13: 9780521552288
• ISBN-10: 0521552281
• Artikelnr.: 39373565

Autorenporträt

Sarah Coakley is Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Her recent publications include Religion and the Body (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Powers and Submissions: Philosophy, Spirituality and Gender (2002), Pain and Its Transformations (2008), The Spiritual Senses (with Paul L. Gavrilyuk, Cambridge University Press, 2011) and Sacrifice Regained (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Coakley is also the editor of Re-Thinking Gregory of Nyssa (2003) and co-editor (with Charles M. Stang) of Re-Thinking Dionysius the Areopagite (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Prelude: God, sexuality and the self
The arguments of this book
1. Recasting 'systematic theology': gender, desire and théologie totale
2. Doing theology 'on Wigan Pier': why feminism and the social sciences matter to theology
3. Praying the Trinity: a neglected patristic tradition
4. The charismatic constituency: embarrassment or riches?
5. Seeing God: Trinitarian thought through iconography
6. 'Batter my heart': reorientations of classic Trinitarian thought
7. The primacy of divine desire: God as trinity and the 'apophatic turn'
Coda: conclusions and beyond
Glossary of technical terms and names.