1st Edition

Divine Flesh, Embodied Word Incarnation as a Hermeneutical Key to a Feminist Theologian's Reading of Luce Irigaray's Work

By Anne-Claire Mulder Copyright 2006
412 Pages
by Routledge

412 Pages
by Routledge

What has Luce Irigaray’s statement that women need a God to do with her thoughts on the relation between body and mind, or the sensible and the intelligible? Using the theological notion ‘incarnation’ as a hermeneutical key, Anne-Claire Mulder brings together and illuminates the interrelations between these different themes in Luce Irigaray’s work. Seesawing between Luce Irigaray’s critique of... Read more
Acknowledgements, Acknowledgements 2005, Introduction, I. Incarnation: the Word becomes flesh, II. Incarnation: the flesh becomes Word, III. Incarnation: fruit of the encounter with the other, Epilogue, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Anne-Claire Mulder (theologian) defended this thesis in 2000 at the University of Amsterdam. She has published texts in Paragraph (2002/3) and in Welt gestalten im ausgehenden Patriarchat edited by Maria Moser and Ina Praetorius (2003). She is co-editor – with Kune Biezeveld – of Towards a Different Transcendence. Feminist Findings on Subjectivity, Religion and Values, (Oxford/Bern, 2001). She is currently university teacher for Women’s studies theology at the Theological University of Kampen.