Title:	Agape, Eros, Gender Towards A Pauline Sexual Ethic
Authors:	Watson, Francis
Keywords:	Towards a Pauline sexual ethic
Issue Date:	2000
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Description:	Issues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book re¯ects this broad interdisciplinary situation, although its own standpoint is a theological one. 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 love that includes the relationship of man and woman within its scope. The central problem is addressed by way of key Pauline texts relating to gender and sexuality (1 Corinthians 11, Romans 7, Ephesians 5), texts whose in¯uence on western theology and culture has been enduring and pervasive. They are read here in conjunction with later theological and non-theological texts that re¯ect that in¯uence ± ranging from Augustine and Barth to Virginia Woolf, Freud and Irigaray. As in the author's previous books, the intention is to practise a less restrictive approach to biblical interpretation which locates the texts within broad theological and intellectual horizons.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/22153
ISBN:	0 511 01345 0
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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