GOD SEXUALITY AND THE SELF

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Sarah Coakley is NorrisHulse 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 ReThinking Gregory of Nyssa (2003) and coeditor (with Charles M. Stang) of ReThinking Dionysius the Areopagite (2009).A creative new venture in systematic theology which tackles the intrinsic relation of God and sexuality.This new and creative venture in systematic theology unearths the profound relation of God prayer and sexuality and ends up mapping a new landscape of theological endeavour. Accessible clear and challenging it will be of great interest to all scholars and students of theology.This new and creative venture in systematic theology unearths the profound relation of God prayer and sexuality and ends up mapping a new landscape of theological endeavour. Accessible clear and challenging it will be of great interest to all scholars and students of theology.God Sexuality and the Self is a new venture in systematic theology. Sarah Coakley invites the reader to reconceive the relation of sexual desire and the desire for God and through the lens of prayer practice to chart the intrinsic connection of this relation to a theology of the Trinity. The goal is to integrate the demanding ascetical undertaking of prayer with the recovery of lost and neglected materials from the tradition and thus to reanimate doctrinal reflection both imaginatively and spiritually. What emerges is a vision of human longing for the triune God which is both edgy and compelling: Coakleys thęologie totale questions standard shibboleths on sexuality and gender and thereby suggests a way beyond current destructive impasses in the churches. The book is clearly and accessibly written and will be of great interest to all scholars and students of theology.Preface: Prelude: God sexuality and the self: The arguments of this book: 1. Recasting systematic theology: gender desire and thęologie 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.In the beginning was the Word Where the Christian account of divine trinity is traced back to the Johannine correlation of God and the Logos the third Person may be no more than a necessary postscript. In this remarkable first volume of her Systematic Theology Sarah Coakley propose

Data Publikacji: 2013-08-29
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