Sexual Difference, Gender, and Agency in Karl Barth`s Church Dogmatics
- London T&T Clark 2020
- 196p
- T&T Clark Explorations in Reformed Theology - 2 .
Introduction, Tracking ordered binaries, Tracking the human agent, Scope and outline of the argument, Chapter 1, Rehabilitating the agent of Theological discourse, Introduction, Bad epistemic habits habits of the modern subject, The humbled and hopeful doer of theology, Mary and Elizabeth as model agents, Conclusion, Chapter2Playing the neighbor in an " Order of Praise", Introduction, The neighbor within the "orders of creation', The neighbor within an "order of praise", The good Samaritan as a model of neighbor, the Jewish Samaritan and the volkisch church, Conclusion, Chapter 3, Reorienting the agent in the Doctrine of Creation, Introduction, Myth, maternity, and sexual difference in contemporaneous scholarship, Christ concealed in the first article, Myth-Critique and matriarchal repression in Genesis1, Sexual difference and divine likeness in Genesis1, Conclusion, Chapter4, Playing Adam and silencing Eve, Introduction, Freedom, masculinity, and Genesis2, Adam as a model agent, Constraining Eve, Re-animating Eve, Conclusion, Chapter5, Reorienting the agent of a Theological Anthropology, Introduction, A christocentric method, The love of God, The love of neighbor, The sexually differentiated neighbor, Conclusion, Chapter6, An Ethic for the sexually differentiated self, Introduction, The agent in a divine command ethic, Ethical guidelines for securing sexual difference, Ethical guidelines for ordering the sexual relationship, Conclusion, Conclusion, Disentangling the agent from a sexist order, Disentangling the agent from a heteronormative framework, Interrogating gender norms