Creation and Covenant: The Significance of Sexual Difference in the Moral Theology of Marriage. By Christopher Chenault Roberts
There are two aims to this book. The first is to outline the account of the significance of sexual difference in the Western theological tradition; the second is to criticize the arguments of certain revisionist theologians for minimizing the importance of sexual difference in their mistaken desire...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 439-441 |
| Review of: | Creation and covenant (New York, NY [u.a.] : T & T Clark International, 2007) (Thatcher, Adrian)
Creation and covenant (New York, NY [u.a.] : T & T Clark International, 2007) (Thatcher, Adrian) |
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| Summary: | There are two aims to this book. The first is to outline the account of the significance of sexual difference in the Western theological tradition; the second is to criticize the arguments of certain revisionist theologians for minimizing the importance of sexual difference in their mistaken desire to accommodate same-sex marriages. The tradition, culminating in Barth (and John Paul II), is the strong foundation for the exposure of the revisionists’ ‘shallowness’ (p. 223). The first aim is successfully achieved; the second is more problematic., Roberts first describes the rudimentary understandings of sexual difference in Tatian, Tertullian, Clement, and Jerome, and concludes modestly that there was ‘no single systematic account of sexual difference in early Christianity’ (p. 33). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fln021 |