Schleiermacher’s Transcendental Reasoning

Toward a Feminist Affirmation of Divine Personhood

Bibliographic Data

ID14948541
AuthorsShelli M Poe (corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume24
Issue2
Pages139-155
Publication date2016-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Theology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0966-7350 • E-ISSN: 1745-5189
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0966735015612180
OpenAlexW2730799709
LanguageEN
References cited18

I suggest that it is beneficial for Christian feminist theologians to affirm divine personhood on the basis of the revelation of God in the person of Jesus Christ. Doing so allows feminist theologians to connect the doctrines of God and Christ within systematic theologies. Moreover, by affirming divine personhood in concert with an extension of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s transcendental reasoning about redemption, feminists could contribute to the disruption of sexist ecclesial belief and practice. I examine Schleiermacher’s account and rejection of Nazareanism, Manicheanism, Pelagianism, and Docetism, inferring from them four marks of personhood as conditions for the possibility of redemption. These include the communicability of difference, material activity, differentiated relationality, and discerning attention with circumscribed ineffability. In this way, I link feminist anthropologies with Christologically regulated soteriological claims vis-à-vis the doctrine of God

Doctrine · Epistemology · Feminist theology · Personhood · Revelation · Sociology · Theology · Transcendental number · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious Education and Schools

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