Grace Beyond Nature? Beyond Embodiment as Essentialism: A Christological Critique

This essay explores the relationship between nature and grace and the theological impact of this relationship on feminist anthropological debates. Engaging this debate through an examination and critique of Serene Jones’ ‘eschatological essentialism’, this essay suggests that Jones mistakenly charac...

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Main Author: Daniels, Brandy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2016]
In: Feminist theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 245-259
IxTheo Classification:FD Contextual theology
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
NBE Anthropology
NBF Christology
Further subjects:B Essentialism (Philosophy)
B Essentialism
B Karl Barth
B Judith Butler
B Constructivism (Philosophy)
B Anthropology
B JONES, Serene, 1959-
B Theological Anthropology
B Serene Jones
B Constructivism
B Eschatology
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Summary:This essay explores the relationship between nature and grace and the theological impact of this relationship on feminist anthropological debates. Engaging this debate through an examination and critique of Serene Jones’ ‘eschatological essentialism’, this essay suggests that Jones mistakenly characterizes constructivism, and thus turns too quickly to an essentialist paradigm without considering its risks. Using Judith Butler and Karl Barth, this essay proposes an account of identity that the author calls a ‘Christological constructivism’. Suggesting that the person and work of Christ instantiates a grace that disrupts nature, Daniels argues for an account of identity as ‘more-than’, suggesting that this anthropology engenders healing for women, and men, within communities religious and otherwise.
ISSN:1745-5189
Contains:Enthalten in: Feminist theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0966735015627972