The Kindness of God
metaphor, gender, and religious language
$47.93
- Paperback
214 pages
- Release Date
2 October 2008
Summary
The Kindness of God: Reimagining Gender in Biblical Imagery
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198269502 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198269501 |
| Author: | Janet Martin Soskice |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 214 |
| Release Date: | 2 October 2008 |
| Weight: | 233g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 135mm x 17mm |
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Soskice throws off many provocative insights [such as] in a splendid chapter on friendship [in which] she traces the notion from Aristotle through to CS Lewis. Fergus Kerr, The Tablet
About The Author
Janet Martin Soskice
Janet Martin Soskice is Reader in Philosophical Theology, University of Cambridge.
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