Bodies, Lives, Voices : Gender in Theology.
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- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781474282048
- 230.082
- BT83.55 .B63 2016
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Bodies -- Boundaries and Knowledge: Feminist Ethics in Search of Sure Foundations -- Proposals for a Common Morality -- A Shared Human Nature? -- Non-Relative Virtues? -- Abstract Principles? -- Conclusion -- Dympna Revisited: Thinking about the Sexual Abuse of Children -- Introduction -- A New Topic on the Agenda of Christian Ethics? -- Our Indifference to Children -- Betrayal of Trust -- Sexual Abuse and our Concern for Children -- Gender Issues and the Sexual Abuse of Children -- Towards a Definition of the Sexual Abuse of Children -- Definitions of the Sexual Abuse of Children -- Christian Responses to the Sexual Abuse of Children -- Women Theologians and the Holocaust -- Part II: Lives -- Disrupting the Sacred: Religion and Gender in the City -- Petronilla de Chemille, Mulier Fortis -- Rebellious Women: Images of Women in the Protest Literature of Tamil Christian Dalits -- The Woman's Lot in Esther -- Part III: Voices -- Feeling and Reason: Feminist Notes on the 1821-22 Debate between Hegel and Schleiermacher -- Staging the Debate -- An Improper Diremption between Feeling and Reason -- Acrimony and Acrisy -- Fudging on Feeling? -- Knowing God? -- A False Sense of Unity -- 'Broken Conceptuality' -- Conclusions -- The Divine Masquerade: A Psychoanalytic Theory about the Play of Gender in Religion -- 'Abjection. . . the Most Propitious Place for Communication': Celebrating the Death of the Unitary Subject -- Introduction -- Semanalysis of Ricoeur's Text -- Desire and Language -- The Potential Place for the Disruption of Patriarchy -- Conclusion: Celebrating Death of the Unitary Subject -- What's God Got to Do with It? -- Preliminary Diagnosis -- The Lure of Desire.
Desire, Jouissance and the God of Excess -- Divine Intimations -- The Difference that Is Sexual Difference -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Index of References -- Index of Authors.
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