Incarnation, Cross, and Sacrifice: A Feminist-Inspired Reappraisal

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Tanner, Kathryn | Copyright information

Serious attention to the incarnation enables one to revise traditional descriptions and explanations of the saving significance of the cross so as to do justice to all the criticisms that white feminist and womanist theologians level against classical atonement theories.1 This is among the more controversial and radical claims to be found in my recent brief systematic theology, Jesus, Humanity, and the THmty.2 I expand upon the argument now, and show how it provides a nuanced and subtle rewor...

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