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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: Powers and Submissions -- The Contemplative Matrix -- Kenosis and Subversion: On the Repression of "Vulnerability" in Christian Feminist Writing -- Traditions of Spiritual Guidance: Dom John Chapman OSB (1865-1933) on the Meaning of "Contemplation" -- Creaturehood Before God: Male and Female -- Philosophical Interlocutions -- Visions of the Self in Late Medieval Christianity: Some Cross-Disciplinary Reflections -- Gender and Knowledge in Modern Western Philosophy: The "Man of Reason" and the "Feminine Other" in Enlightenment and Romantic Thought -- Analytic Philosophy of Religion in Feminist Perspective: Some Questions -- Doctrinal Implications -- "Persons" in the "Social" Doctrine of the Trinity: Current Analytic Discussion and "Cappadocian" Theology -- The Resurrection and the "Spiritual Senses": On Wittgenstein, Epistemology and the Risen Christ -- The Eschatological Body: Gender, Transformation and God. |
| Summary |
Gender theory has in recent years given an increasingly nuanced account of the wordly 'powers' that serve to stifle human flourishing. However, feminine theology has been loath to acknowledge that form of surrender to divine 'power' which can alone sustain authentic human freedom, and chasten the abusive will to power in both women and men. Powers and Submissions tackles the questions of how the narratives of divine and human 'powers' should be disentangled. Coakley examines this issue through the lens of spiritual practice, philosophical enquiry and doctoral analysis, arguing that contemplative practice must be the sustaining matrix of any truly liberative human empowerment. |
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