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SUMMARY:Gender\, Obedience\, and Religious Experience: The Virgin Mary in 
 a world after Kant - Ruth Jackson (Research Fellow\, CRASSH and Corpus Chr
 isti College\, Cambridge)
DTSTART:20170530T164500Z
DTEND:20170530T181500Z
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CONTACT:Dr Rachel E. Holmes
DESCRIPTION:The doctrine of the Virgin Birth is just one part of the story
  that Christians tell about the identity of Jesus Christ as the Son of God
 . But when theologians consider this doctrine\, which holds that Jesus was
  conceived by the Holy Spirit\, and born of the Virgin Mary\, they also co
 me up against issues of gender\, obedience\, religious knowledge and relig
 ious experience. How is Mary defined here? What role does she take on in t
 he story? What can we say about her own faith and knowledge? In this talk\
 , I will consider two nineteenth-century responses both to this doctrine a
 nd the figure of the Virgin Mary. In the work of the theologian Friedrich 
 Schleiermacher\, which I will contrast with that of the dramatist and essa
 yist Heinrich von Kleist\, we find striking suggestions about the relation
 ship between a person's gender\, their religious belief\, and their sense 
 of what is 'real'.
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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