School of Theology and Seminary Faculty Publications

One Species or Two? Kierkegaard's Anthropology and the Feminist Critique of Sin

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1995

Disciplines

Anthropology | Arts and Humanities | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Religion | Social and Behavioral Sciences

Abstract

Søren Kierkegaard was perhaps the first theologian to anticipate the feminist notion of a distinctively feminine way of sinning. Kierkegaard not only recognized a distinction between feminine and masculine sin, but also rooted it in an anthropological structure that establishes men and women as one species, without diminishing the differences between them.

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