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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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Political theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 331-348 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Suárez, Francisco 1548-1617
/ Scholasticism
/ Woman
/ Politics
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| RelBib Classification: | CH Christianity and Society KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Women
B Canon Law B Queens B Suárez B scholastic political theory B Authority |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 3-4 May-June 2018" |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1450469 |