Specters of Paul: Sexual Difference in Early Christian Thought. By Benjamin H. Dunning
Benjamin H. Dunning attempts to demonstrate how the tensions of sexual difference which are implicit in Paul’s theological anthropology remain unresolved among early Christian thinkers who used his letters. The tension exists because Paul created an anthropological spectrum ranging from the creation...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 702-705 |
| Review of: | Specters of Paul (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) (Twigg, Matthew)
Specters of Paul (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) (Twigg, Matthew) |
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| Summary: | Benjamin H. Dunning attempts to demonstrate how the tensions of sexual difference which are implicit in Paul’s theological anthropology remain unresolved among early Christian thinkers who used his letters. The tension exists because Paul created an anthropological spectrum ranging from the creation of Adam and his σῶμα ψυχικόν to the birth and resurrection of Christ, ‘the second Adam’, in his σῶμα πνευματικόν. What place can women, and their bodies, possibly occupy on this androcentric spectrum? And what does this place mean for the nature of their bodies and sexuality in both this life and in their future resurrected state?, Dunning convincingly demonstrates that for Paul, the anthropological fact of distinct male and female bodies would be eradicated at the eschaton. |
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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/fls103 |