| Description |
1 online resource (171 pages). |
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text file PDF |
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polychrome |
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Gender, Theory, and Religion
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Gender, theory, and religion.
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| Contents |
Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Reading Anthropology in Breton's Saint Paul; 2. Mysticism, Femininity, and Difference in Badiou's Theory of Pauline Discourses; 3. "Adam Is Christ": Žižek, Paul, and the Collapse of the Anthropological Interval; 4. Pauline Typology, Theological Anthropology, and the Possibilities of Impossible Difference; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
The apostle Paul deals extensively with gender, embodiment, and desire in his authentic letters, yet many of the contemporary philosophers interested in his work downplay these aspects of his thought. Christ Without Adam is the first book to examine the role of gender and sexuality in the turn to the apostle Paul in recent Continental philosophy. It builds a constructive proposal for embodied Christian theological anthropology in conversation with?and in contrast to?the?Paulinisms" of Stanislas Breton, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Žižek. Paul's letters bequeathed a crucial anthropological a. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
In English. |
| Subject |
Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Theology.
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Bible. Epistles of Paul. |
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Theology. |
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Breton, Stanislas.
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Breton, Stanislas. |
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Badiou, Alain.
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Badiou, Alain. |
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Žižek, Slavoj.
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Žižek, Slavoj. |
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Bible. Epistles of Paul. |
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Sex differences -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Sex differences -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
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Theological anthropology -- Christianity.
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Theological anthropology -- Christianity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dunning, Benjamin H. Christ Without Adam : Subjectivity and Sexual Difference in the Philosophers' Paul. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2014 9780231167659 |
| ISBN |
9780231537339 (electronic book) |
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0231537336 (electronic book) |
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1306777143 (e-book) |
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9781306777148 (e-book) |
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9780231167642 |
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9780231167659 |
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0231167644 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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9780231167642 |
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0231167652 (paperback : acid-free paper) |
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9780231167659 |
| Standard No. |
10.7312/dunn16764 |
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