Summary
In his new book Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians, the Dominican Fergus Kerr questions the wisdom of moving the nuptial meaning of the body, which builds on the complementarily of the sexes, from the periphery to the center of theological speculation about the nature of God. The Protestant theologian Graham Ward thinks that sexual difference as spoken of in Scripture is valuable only as a trope-as part of a theological rhetoric that describes the relations between Israel and God, Christ and the church, but not as a real requirement for the actual bodies that enter into marriage.
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Body Language
Body Language Creation and Covenant The Significance of Sexual Difference in the Moral Theology of Marriage Christopher Roberts T. & T. Clark, $130, 266 pp.
In his new book Twentieth-Century Catholic Theologians, the Dominican Fergus Kerr questions the wisdom of moving the nuptial meaning of the body, which builds on the complementarily of the sexes, from the periphery to the center of theological speculation about the nature of God. This invi...See the full content of this document
