The kindness of God : metaphor, gender, and religious language / Janet Martin Soskice.

By:

Soskice, Janet Martin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780191544330
0191544337
019826951X
9780198269519
9781435633582
143563358X
1281341789
9781281341785
9780191683657
0191683655
9780198269502
0198269501
9786611341787
6611341781

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Kindness of God.DDC classification:

220.6 22

LOC classification:

BS511.3 .S67 2007eb

Other classification:

BN 3400

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Contents:

Introduction -- Love and Attention -- Imago Dei -- Creation and Relation -- Calling God 'Father' -- Blood and Defilement: Christology -- Trinity and the 'Feminine Other' -- The Kindness of God: Trinity and the Image of God in Julian of Norwich and Augustine -- Friendship -- Being Lovely: Eschatological Anthropology.

Summary: Fathers, sons, brothers, kings. Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? Janet Martin Soskice opens up the Bible's imagery for sex, gender, and kingship, by discussing its place in the central teachings of Christian theology. - ;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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index.

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Fathers, sons, brothers, kings. Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? Janet Martin Soskice opens up the Bible's imagery for sex, gender, and kingship, by discussing its place in the central teachings of Christian theology. - ;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.

English.

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