Sarah Coakley 
Powers and Submissions [PDF ebook] 
Spirituality, Philosophy and Gender

Acknowledgements.
Preface.
Prologue: Powers and Submissions.
Part I: The Comtemplative Matrix.
1. Kenosis and Subversion: On the Repression of 'Vulnerability’
in Christian Feminist Writing.
2. Traditions of Spiritual Guidance: Dom John Chapman OSB
(1865-1933) on the Meaning of 'Contemplation’.
3. Creaturehood Before God: Male and Female.
Part II: Philosophical Interlocutions.
4. Visions of the Self in Late Medieval Christianity: Some
Cross-Disciplinary Reflections.
5. Gender and Knowledge in Modern Western Philosophy: The 'Man
of Reason’ and the 'Feminine Other’ in Enlightenment and Romantic
Thought.
6. Analytic Philosophy of Religion in Feminist Perspective: Some
Questions.
Part III: Doctrinal Implications.
7. 'Persons’ in the 'Social’ Doctrine of the Trinity: Current
Analytic Discussion and 'Cappadocian’ Theology.
8. The Resurrection and the 'Spiritual Senses’: On Wittgenstein,
Epistemology and the Risen Christ.
9. The Eschatological Body: Gender, Transformation and God.
Index.

Sarah Coakley is Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Professor of Divinity at Harvard University. She previously taught at Oriel College, Oxford, and at the Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University. She is the author of Christ Without Absolutes (1988); the editor (with David A. Pailin) of The Making and Remaking of Christian Doctrine (1991), and editor of Religion and the Body (1997). She is currently working on a systematic theology, the first volume of which will appear as God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity’ (forthcoming).