Sexual difference, gender, and agency in Karl Barth's church dogmatics \
By: Faye Bodley-Dangelo
Series: T&T Clark Explorations in Reformed Theology
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780567679338
Subjects: Theology
Description: This volume is a critical and constructive analysis of the sexually differentiated self in Karl Barth's 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 Barth's 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 Christ's 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 Barth's 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.
Notes: Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Chapter One: Rehabilitating the Agent of Theological Discourse; title: Chapter Two: Playing the Neighbor in an "Order of Praise"; title: Chapter Three: Re-orienting the Agent in the Doctrine of Creation; title: Chapter Four: Playing Adam and Silencing Eve; title: Chapter Five: Re-Orienting the Agent of a Theological Anthropology; title: Chapter Six:  An Ethic for the Sexually Differentiated Self; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: Index