Schleiermacher’s Transcendental Reasoning: Toward a Feminist Affirmation of Divine Personhood
I suggest that it is beneficial for Christian feminist theologians to affirm divine personhood on the basis of the revelation of God in the person of Jesus Christ. Doing so allows feminist theologians to connect the doctrines of God and Christ within systematic theologies. Moreover, by affirming div...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
2016
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Feminist theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 139-155 |
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Karl Barth
B Feminism B Christology B doctrine of God B Friedrich Schleiermacher B Personhood |
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Summary: | I suggest that it is beneficial for Christian feminist theologians to affirm divine personhood on the basis of the revelation of God in the person of Jesus Christ. Doing so allows feminist theologians to connect the doctrines of God and Christ within systematic theologies. Moreover, by affirming divine personhood in concert with an extension of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s transcendental reasoning about redemption, feminists could contribute to the disruption of sexist ecclesial belief and practice. I examine Schleiermacher’s account and rejection of Nazareanism, Manicheanism, Pelagianism, and Docetism, inferring from them four marks of personhood as conditions for the possibility of redemption. These include the communicability of difference, material activity, differentiated relationality, and discerning attention with circumscribed ineffability. In this way, I link feminist anthropologies with Christologically regulated soteriological claims vis-à-vis the doctrine of God. |
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ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0966735015612180 |