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Theology and Gender HT26

Required Reading

Marcella Althaus-Reid

2003. “Queering God in Relationships: Trinitarians and the God of Orgy.” In The Queer God, pp. 46-60. Routledge.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

1990. Mysterium Paschale: The Mystery of Easter, trans. Aidan Nichols, pp. 23-36. T & T Clark.

Sergei Bulgakov

1993. Sophia, the wisdom of God: An Uutline of Sophiology, trans. Thompson et al. Lindisfarne. 149 pp.

Kevin Carnahan

2025. “Theological Reflections on Sex and Gender.” In The Disappearance of Eve and the Gender of Christ: Why Traditional Soteriology Requires a Trans* Savior, pp. 97-138. Fortress Press.

Sarah Coakley

2001. “Kenosis: Theological Meanings and Gender Connotations.” in The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis, ed. John Polkinghorne, pp. 192-21. Eerdmans.

2002. Powers and Submissions: Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender. Blackwell, 172 pp.

2006. “Does Kenosis Rest on a Mistake? Three Kenotic Models in Patristic Exegesis.” In Exploring Kenotic Christology: The Self-Emptying of God, ed. Stephen Evan, pp. 246-264. Oxford University Press.

C. A. Chau

2012. “ ‘What Could Possibly Be Given?’: Towards an Exploration of Kenosis as Foregiveness—Continuing the Conversation between Caokley, Hampson, and Papanikaolau.” Modern Theology, Vol. 28, pp. 1-24.

Michelle A. Gonzalez

2004. “Hans Urs von Balthasar and Contemporary Feminist Theology,” Theological Studies, Vol. 1, No. 65, pp. 566–95.

Daphne Hampson

1988. “On Power and Gender.” Modern Theology, Vo. 4, pp. 234-250.

1990. Theology and Feminism, pp. 1-7, 148-175. Blackwell.

Jennifer Newsom Martin

2015. “The ‘Whence’ and the ‘Whither’ of Balthasar’s Gendered Theology: Rehabilitating Kenosis for Feminist Theology.” Modern Theology, Vol. 31, pp. 211-234.

Anna Mercedes

2011. Power For: Feminism and Christ’s Self-Giving. Bloomsbury. 184 pp.

Jürgen Moltmann

2001. “God’s Kenosis in the Creation and Consummation of the World.” In The Work of Love: Creation as Kenosis, ed. John Polkinghorne, pp. 137-151. Eerdmans.

Aristotle Papanikolaou

2003. “Person, Kenosis and Abuse: Hans Urs von Balthasar and Feminist Theologies in Conversation.” Modern Theology, Vol. 19, pp. 41-65.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

1983. “The Kenosis of the Father: A Feminist Midrash on the Gospels in Three Acts.” In Sexism as God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology, pp. 1-12. Beacon Press.

Annie Selak

2017. “Orthodoxy, Orthodpraxis, and Orthopathy: Evaluating the Feminist Kenosis Debate.” Modern Theology, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 529-548.

Linn Marie Tonstad 

2016. “Speaking ‘Father’ Rightly: Kenotic Reformation into Sonship in Sarah Coakley.” In God and Difference: The Trinity, Sexuality, and the Transformation of Finitude, pp. 98-132. Routledge.

Optional further reading

Tina Beattie

2005. “Sex, Death, and Melodrama: A Feminist Critique of Hans Urs von Balthasar.” The Way, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 160–176.

Jonna Bornemark

2013. “Kenosis as mirroring.” Svensk teologisk kvartalskrift, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 75-80.

Anne-Louise Eriksson

2009. “ ‘Behold, I am the Lord’s Handmaiden, not the Lords’!’ On Sarah Coakley’s Powers and Submissions.” Svensk Teologisk Kvartalssskrift, Vol. 85, No. 2, pp. 70-74.

Michel Foucault

1982. “The Subject and Power.” Critical Inquiry, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 777-795.

P. L. Gavrilyuk

2005. “The Kenotic Theology of Sergius Bulgakov.” Scottish Journal of Theology, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 251-269.

Emery Gilles

2019. “Kenosis, Christ, and the Trinity in Thomas Aquinas.” Nova et Vetera, Vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 839-869.

Gerard Mannion

2016. “Changing the (Magisterial) Subject: Women Teaching-with-Authority—From Vatican II to Tomorrow.” Irish Theological Quarterly, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 3-33.

Marianne Servaas and Wim Vandeweile

2024. “The Paradoxical Power of Vulnerability: What it Reveals about Abuse and Cover-Up.” Religions, Vol. 15.