Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine

The Scandal of the Scandal of Particularity

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Bible & Bible Studies, New Testament, Study, Criticism & Interpretation
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Author: Revd Dr Sally Douglas ISBN: 9780567668332
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Publication: May 19, 2016
Imprint: T&T Clark Language: English
Author: Revd Dr Sally Douglas
ISBN: 9780567668332
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication: May 19, 2016
Imprint: T&T Clark
Language: English

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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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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