Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine: The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity
Central to debates about Jesus is the issue of whether he uniquely embodies the divine. While this discussion continues unabated, both those who affirm and those who dismiss, Jesus' divinity regularly eclipse the reality that in many of the earliest strands of the Christian tradition when Jesus' divinity is proclaimed, Jesus is imaged as the female divine.

Sally Douglas investigates these early texts, excavates the motivations for imaging Jesus as Woman Wisdom and the complex reasons that this began to be suppressed in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. The work concludes with an exploration of the powerful implications of engaging with the ancient proclamation of Jesus-Woman Wisdom in contemporary context.
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Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine: The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity
Central to debates about Jesus is the issue of whether he uniquely embodies the divine. While this discussion continues unabated, both those who affirm and those who dismiss, Jesus' divinity regularly eclipse the reality that in many of the earliest strands of the Christian tradition when Jesus' divinity is proclaimed, Jesus is imaged as the female divine.

Sally Douglas investigates these early texts, excavates the motivations for imaging Jesus as Woman Wisdom and the complex reasons that this began to be suppressed in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. The work concludes with an exploration of the powerful implications of engaging with the ancient proclamation of Jesus-Woman Wisdom in contemporary context.
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Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine: The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity

Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine: The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity

by Sally Douglas
Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine: The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity

Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine: The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity

by Sally Douglas

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Overview

Central to debates about Jesus is the issue of whether he uniquely embodies the divine. While this discussion continues unabated, both those who affirm and those who dismiss, Jesus' divinity regularly eclipse the reality that in many of the earliest strands of the Christian tradition when Jesus' divinity is proclaimed, Jesus is imaged as the female divine.

Sally Douglas investigates these early texts, excavates the motivations for imaging Jesus as Woman Wisdom and the complex reasons that this began to be suppressed in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. The work concludes with an exploration of the powerful implications of engaging with the ancient proclamation of Jesus-Woman Wisdom in contemporary context.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780567668332
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 05/19/2016
Series: The Library of New Testament Studies
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 256
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Sally Douglas is an Honorary Postdoctoral Associate in the University of Divinity in Melbourne, Australia. She is a Uniting Church minister with an inner city congregation and is an adjunct teacher within the University of Divinity at Pilgrim Theological College, Australia.
Sally Douglas is an Honorary Postdoctoral Associate and Adjunct Lecturer at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Melbourne and is a Uniting Church Minister with an inner city congregation.

Table of Contents

List of Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1.The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity
2. Is He She?
3. Why is it So?
4. Where Shall Wisdom be Found?
5. Re-Recognising Jesus-Woman Wisdom
6. Scandalous Invitations
Bibliography
Index
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