Sally Douglas

Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine

The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity

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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 p… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-567-66715-1
EAN: 9780567667151
Produktnummer: 20166070
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 256 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 5'427 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage
Abbildungen: 3 bw illus

Über den Autor

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.