Agape, Eros, Gender: Towards a Pauline Sexual Ethic (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521662635)

Issues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this broad interdisciplinary situation. It focuses on issues of gender and sexuality (eros) in the light of the comprehensive divine-human love (agape) which, for the New Testament, lies at the heart of Christian faith and practice. The intention is to outline a distinctively Christian understanding of the male/female relationship reflecting the priority of agape over eros. Key Pauline texts are read alongside modern texts by Virginia Woolf, Freud and Irigaray.

Author: Francis Watson
ISBN-10: 052166263X
ISBN-13: 9780521662635
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2000
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 5.70h x 8.60w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2000 pg. 150