A Hermeneutic of Aquinas's Mens Through a Sexually Differentiated Epistemology: Towards an Understanding of Woman as Imago Dei

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Some have extended this argument into a sexual complementarity beyond that of marriage. Pia De Solenni, in a doctoral dissertation entitled A Hermeneutic of Aquinas’s Mens Through a Sexually Differentiated Epistemology: Towards an Understanding of Woman as Imago Dei , contends that the bodily difference between men and women entails a difference in their ways of knowing, through the process both of intellegere and ratiocinari , which is complementary and mutually strengthening even apart from a marital bond.

Towards an Understanding of Woman as Imago Dei

by Pia de Solenni

Woman is created in the image of God. Like man, she is created for the purpose of knowing — ultimately knowing God. True feminism, therefore, respects woman’s essential identity as an image of God. Where she differs from man, a true feminism understands that these differences are constructive and complementary.

Awarded the Pontifical Prize of the Academies by Pope John Paul II, Towards an Understanding of Woman as Imago Dei examines various feminist theories in light of the anthropology and theology of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Universita Della Santa Croce (2003)
ISBN: 8883330838

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