Agape, Eros, Gender: Towards a Pauline Sexual Ethic

by Francis Watson

Book Overview

Issues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this broad interdisciplinary situation, although its own standpoint is broadly theological. In contrast to many contemporary feminist theologies, gender and sexuality (eros) are here understood within a distinctively Christian context characterized by the reality of agape - the New Testament's term for the comprehensive divine-human...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052166263X
• ISBN13: 9780521662635
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.6" x 5.7"