Does Barth's understanding of sexual difference conflict with his theological anthropology?
Faye Bodley-Dangelo argues that in his passive depiction of Eve in the Church Dogmatics Karl Barth truncates the agency of all women, thereby creating conflict between his theology of sexual difference and his theological anthropology, and denying women image-bearing humanity. This article challenge...
| Published in: | Scottish journal of theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2023
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Scottish journal of theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Barth, Karl 1886-1968
/ Bodley-Dangelo, Faye, Sexual difference, gender, and agency in Karl Barth's Church dogmatics
/ Image of God
/ Woman
/ Capacity and disability
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Karl Barth
B Faye Bodley-Dangelo B Sexual Difference B I-Thou encounter |
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| Summary: | Faye Bodley-Dangelo argues that in his passive depiction of Eve in the Church Dogmatics Karl Barth truncates the agency of all women, thereby creating conflict between his theology of sexual difference and his theological anthropology, and denying women image-bearing humanity. This article challenges Bodley-Dangelo's characterisation of ideal agency as active self-assertion and self-determination, arguing that for Barth the ideal agent - for which the paradigm is Christ - is one who self-dispossesses in response to the determining claim of the peculiar other. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930622000722 |