Early church understandings of Jesus as the female divine
Subtitle: the scandal of the scandal of particularity
By: by Sally Douglas
Series: Library of New Testament studies -- volume 557
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780567667144
Subjects: Person and offices; History of doctrines; Femininity of God; Wisdom (Biblical personification)
Description: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The scandal of the scandal of particularity; title: Is he she?; title: Why is it so?; title: Where shall wisdom be found?; title: Re-recognising Jesus-woman wisdom; title: Scandalous invitations.