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Author Soskice, Janet Martin.

Title The kindness of God : metaphor, gender, and religious language / Janet Martin Soskice
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 203 pages)
Contents Introduction -- Love and Attention -- Imago Dei -- Creation and Relation -- Calling God 'Father' -- Blood and Defilement: Christology -- Trinity and the 'Feminine Other' -- The Kindness of God: Trinity and the Image of God in Julian of Norwich and Augustine -- Friendship -- Being Lovely: Eschatological Anthropology
Summary Fathers, sons, brothers, kings. Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? Janet Martin Soskice opens up the Bible's imagery for sex, gender, and kingship, by discussing its place in the central teachings of Christian theology. - ;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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-198) and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013617
Bible fast
Subject Sex role -- Biblical teaching
Women -- Biblical teaching
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Quotations.
Sex role -- Biblical teaching
Women -- Biblical teaching
Feministische Theologie
Freundlichkeit
Gott
Gotteslehre
Güte
Theologie
Trinitätslehre
Gudsbilden -- kristendom.
Könsroller -- religiösa aspekter -- kristendom.
Feministteologi.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
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