Description
| Product ID: | 9780521558266 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | God, Sexuality, and the Self |
| Subtitle: | An Essay 'On the Trinity' |
| Authors: | Author: Sarah Coakley |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Theology, Theology, Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies: women |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This new and creative venture in systematic theology unearths the profound relation of God, prayer and 'sexuality' and ends up mapping a new landscape of theological endeavour. Accessible, clear and challenging, it will be of great interest to all scholars and students of theology. God, Sexuality and the Self is a new venture in systematic theology. Sarah Coakley invites the reader to re-conceive the relation of sexual desire and the desire for God and - through the lens of prayer practice - to chart the intrinsic connection of this relation to a theology of the Trinity. The goal is to integrate the demanding ascetical undertaking of prayer with the recovery of lost and neglected materials from the tradition and thus to reanimate doctrinal reflection both imaginatively and spiritually. What emerges is a vision of human longing for the triune God which is both edgy and compelling: Coakley''s théologie totale questions standard shibboleths on ''sexuality'' and ''gender'' and thereby suggests a way beyond current destructive impasses in the churches. The book is clearly and accessibly written and will be of great interest to all scholars and students of theology. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-08-29 |