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Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine

Early Church Understandings of Jesus as the Female Divine

Douglas, Sally

Hardcover

Series: Library of New Testament Studies

Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0567667146
ISBN13: 9780567667144
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: May 19 2016
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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