Sally Douglas

Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine (eBook, PDF)

The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Central to debates about Jesus is the issue of whether he uniquely embodies the divine. While this discussion continues unabated, both those who affirm and those who dismiss, Jesus' divinity regularly eclipse the reality that in many of the earliest strands of the Christian tradition when Jesus' divinity is proclaimed, Jesus is imaged as the female divine.

Sally Douglas investigates these early texts, excavates the motivations for imaging Jesus as Woman Wisdom and the complex reasons that this began to be suppressed in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. The work concludes with an exploration of the powerful implications of engaging with the ancient proclamation of Jesus-Woman Wisdom in contemporary context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567667151
• Artikelnr.: 44862767

Autorenporträt

Sally Douglas is an Honorary Postdoctoral Associate and Adjunct Lecturer at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne and is a Uniting Church Minister with an inner city congregation.