Knowing God by Name: A Conversation Between Elizabeth A. Johnson and Karl Barth

by Cherith Fee Nordling

Does women's experience matter for theological inquiry? Elizabeth Johnson's premise is that it does, and that the failure of traditional Trinitarian doctrine to account for women's relationality results in a too radical distinction between God and the world. Drawing on feminist ethics and God-talk, transcendental experience, and panentheistic Trinitarian theology, she constructs an alternative relational ontology and Trinitarian female symbol. Is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820478636
• ISBN13: 9780820478630
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 291 Pages