Sexual difference gender and agency in Karl Barths Church dogmatics This volume is a critical and constructive analysis of the sexually differentiated self in Karl Barths Church Dogmatic. It secures in his Christocentric pattern of human agency an untapped resource for unsettling and reimagining the heteropatriarchal structure of human fellowship at the heart of his theological anthropology. Moving through Barths doctrines of revelation creation theological anthropology and special ethics Faye Bodley Dangelo locates the human agent in his broader project aimed at re habilitating the subject of modern protestant theology. She argues the human actor comes into view as the recipient of Christs redemptive activity which redirects it out of self aggrandizing isolation and into relationships of dependency responsiveness and ethical responsibility to multiple sites of divine and creaturely alterity. The book debates that Barths model of human agency cannot on its own terms sustain his version of female subordination nor his repudiation of same sex relationships. Rather it contains ethically oriented critical and reflective mechanisms that resist the sexist heterosexist dimension of his theological anthropology and lend themselves to an anti essentialist performative account of gender.