Powers and Submissions Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender [Paperback]

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• Confronts a central paradox of theological feminism – what Coakley terms 'paradox of power and vulnerability'.
  
• Explores this issue through the perspective of spiritual practice, philosophical enquiry and doctrinal analysis.
  
• Draws together an essential collection of Sarah Coakley's work in this field.
  
• Offers an original perspective into contemporary feminist theology.

Preface.

Prologue: Powers and Submissions.

Part I: The Comtemplative Matrix.

1. Kenosis and Subversion: On the Repression of Vulnerability in Christian Feminist Writing.

2. Traditions of Spiritual Guidance: Dom John Chapman OSB (1865-1933) on the Meaning of Contemplation .

3. Creaturehood Before God: Male and Female.

Part II: Philosophical Interlocutions.

4. Visions of the Self in Late Medieval Christianity: Some Cross-Disciplinary Reflections.

5. Gender and Knowledge in Modern Western Philosophy: The Man of Reason and the Feminine Other in Enlightenment and Romantic Thought.

6. Analytic Philosophy of Religion in Feminist Perspective: Some Questions.

Part III: Doctrinal Implications.

7. Persons in the Social Doctrine of the Trinity: Current Analytic Discussion and Cappadocian Theology.

8. The Resurrection and the Spiritual Senses : On Wittgenstein, Epistemology and the Risen Christ.

9. The Eschatological Body: Gender, Transformation and God.

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