Sharers in the Divine Image: Francisco Suárez and the Justification of Female Political Authority

Unlike the perceived stance of many of his scholastic predecessors and contemporaries, Suárez denies the claim that women are mentally inferior to women, and therefore argues that they enjoy full political authority. In this paper, I explore how scholastic theological resources and canon law sources...

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1. VerfasserIn: Kincaid, Elisabeth Rain (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2018]
In: Political theology
Jahr: 2018, Band: 19, Heft: 4, Seiten: 331-348
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Suárez, Francisco 1548-1617 / Scholastik / Frau / Politik
RelBib Classification:CH Christentum und Gesellschaft
KAE Kirchengeschichte 900-1300; Hochmittelalter
KAG Kirchengeschichte 1500-1648; Reformation; Humanismus; Renaissance
NBE Anthropologie
weitere Schlagwörter:B Women
B Canon Law
B Queens
B Suárez
B scholastic political theory
B Authority
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Zusammenfassung:Unlike the perceived stance of many of his scholastic predecessors and contemporaries, Suárez denies the claim that women are mentally inferior to women, and therefore argues that they enjoy full political authority. In this paper, I explore how scholastic theological resources and canon law sources, as well as his own conception of communal political power, enabled Suarez to make this argument. I also consider how his theologically-grounded support of full political power for women proves an exception to some current critical views of scholastic approaches to women's political power.
Beschreibung:Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 3-4 May-June 2018"
ISSN:1743-1719
Enthält:Enthalten in: Political theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1450469