The Kindness of God: Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language

Janet Soskice

The Kindness of God: Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
30 September 2008
Pages
224
ISBN
9780198269502

The Kindness of God: Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language

Janet Soskice

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 place in the central teachings of Christian theology: the doctrine of God and spirituality, Imago Dei and anthropology, Creation, Christology and the Cross, the Trinity, and eschatology.

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