Meeting God on the cross
Subtitle: Christ, the cross, and the feminist critique
By: Arnfríður Guðmundsdóttir
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780195397963
Description: Gudmundsdottir argues that a feminist theology of the cross serves a dual purpose in feminist hristology: it discloses the patriarchal distortion of traditional christology, and can also reveal lost dimensions in the understanding of the person and work of Jesus Christ.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Christ, the cross, and the feminist critique; title: An introduction to the feminist critique of the Christian tradition; title: Feminist reconstruction of christology-typology; title: The life and death of Jesus Christ from the perspective of the cross; title: The cross of Christ : symbol of hope or sign of oppression?; title: Conclusion: The cross of Christ as a symbol of hope.