After Christianity - Softcover

Hampson, Margaret Daphne; Hampson, Daphne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1563381966 ISBN 13: 9781563381966

Publisher: UNKNO, 1997

Synopsis

In a penetrating analysis Dr Hampson shows that Christianity cannot be true, for it requires a particular revelation which we can no longer think possible. Moreover its situatedness in past history makes Christianity necessarily sexist. In our religion, she argues, our relation to the past must be what it is in every other sphere. Dr Hampson gives a 'reading' from a feminist perspective of major paradigms of past theology: transcendent monotheism; covenant, sacrifice and incarnation; and God conceived of as Trinity. She demonstrates that the masculinist construal of 'woman' and of femininity has been pivotal to the whole, while it has been fatal to women. In what is the heart of the book, Dr Hampson proceeds to explore how, drawing on our experience of that dimension of reality which is God, we should conceptualize what God may be. A final chapter is devoted to a discussion of the ethical context of the lived life within which such a spirituality may flourish.

About this title

About the Author:

Daphne Hampson is Professor of Post-Christian Thought in the School of Divinity at the University of St Andrews. She holds a doctorate in history (from Oxford), theology (Harvard) and a masters degree in Continental philosophy. She has published widely in the field of feminism and theology and in systematic theology.

About this edition

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1563381966
• ISBN 13: 9781563381966
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326