{"title":"Sarah Coakley","description":"\u003cp\u003eSarah Coakley's works explore the intersections of theology, spirituality, and philosophy, offering profound reflections on faith and human experience. Her writing often probes themes of power, embodiment, and vulnerability, inviting readers into complex conversations about the nature of the divine and the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a keen intellectual insight and poetic sensitivity, Coakley challenges conventional boundaries within Religion \u0026amp; Spirituality, making her books essential for those interested in thoughtful theological inquiry and spiritual depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-broken-body-by-sarah-coakley-9781405189231","title":"The Broken Body","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating collection of essays exploring a fresh contemporary approach to the person and doctrine of Jesus Christ\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow should Christians think about the person of Jesus Christ today? In this volume, Sarah Coakley argues that this question has to be 'broken open' in new and unexpected ways: by an awareness of the deep spiritual demands of the christological task and its strikingly 'apophatic' dimensions; by a probing of the paradoxical ways in which Judaism and Christianity are drawn together in Christ, even by those issues which seem to 'break' them most decisively apart; and by an exploration of the mode of Christ's presence in the eucharist, with its intensification, 'breaking' and re-gathering of human desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this sequel to her celebrated earlier volume of essays, \u003ci\u003ePowers and Submissions\u003c\/i\u003e, Coakley returns to its unifying theme of divine power and contemplative submission and weaves a new web of christological outcomes. These remain replete with controversial implications for gender, spirituality and ethics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Broken Body\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to those working in the fields of systematic theology, philosophy of religion, early Christian studies, Jewish\/Christian relations, and feminist and gender theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fusing biblical and patristic theology, analytic philosophy, and spiritual tradition, Sarah Coakley has produced a fascinating, inspiring, and compelling account of Christ's identity, and its importance for questions of life.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Professor Mark Wynn, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Coakley argues that good Christology arises only from intellectual and spiritual postures learnt by encountering Christ openly. This volume subtly and powerfully facilitates such encounter, with God and, in him, with our neighbours, especially the Jewish people.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Professor Judith Wolfe, University of St. Andrews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Everything we have come to expect from Sarah Coakley is here in this extraordinary collection: wonderful clarity; startling and fruitful comparisons, within and beyond the theological canon; a brisk defiance of feminist conventions that in turn sharpens and deepens feminist analysis; a resistance to cheap theological certainties; and an abiding faithfulness, anchored in Christ, borne aloft by the Spirit. Christology is here shown to embrace abjection and jouissance, to advocate sacrifice that is itself the end of patriarchal violence, and to demand a eucharistic sharing that is incomplete without solidarity to the outcast and the poor, themselves the face of the living Christ. In these essays Coakley exemplifies the semiotic richness of priest and scholar, a breaking open of theological reserves that will transgress, startle, renew, instruct. This is sacrifice, re-made.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Professor Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47428220977388,"sku":"9781405189231","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781405189231.jpg?v=1774766911"},{"product_id":"powers-and-submissions-by-sarah-coakley-9780631207368","title":"Powers and Submissions","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Sarah Coakley confronts a central paradox of theological feminism—what she terms 'the paradox of power and vulnerability'. Whilst gender theory has in recent years given an increasingly nuanced account of the worldly 'powers' that serve to stifle human flourishing, feminist theology has been loath to acknowledge that form of surrender to divine 'power' which can alone sustain authentic human freedom, and chasten the abusive will to power in both women and men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut how are the narratives of divine and human 'powers' to be disentangled? When is 'submission' a mark of false consciousness, and when not? Coakley examines this issue through the lens of spiritual practice, philosophical enquiry, and doctrinal analysis, arguing that contemplative practice must be the sustaining matrix of any truly liberative human empowerment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePowers and Submissions\u003c\/em\u003e challenges readers to reconsider their understanding of power in a theological framework, encouraging a reevaluation of what true empowerment means within a spiritual context.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455672729836,"sku":"9780631207368","price":95.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81LlAnGZeaL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774792109"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/sarah-coakley.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}