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172Why the Jesus as mother tradition undermines the symbolic argument against women's ordinationReligious Studies. 2023.The symbolic argument against women's ordination supposes that the theological significance of Christ's sex is his saving relationship to the Church, which takes the form of that of a bridegroom and his bride. It infers that a male priest alone is fit to represent Christ in his capacity as the Saviour of the Church, and thus that only men should be ordained. Since the emergence of the symbolic argument, however, scholars have rediscovered a long tradition of understanding Christ's saving relatio…Read more
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423Narrative, Second-person Experience, and Self-perception: A Reason it is Good to Conceive of One's Life NarrativelyThe Philosophical Quarterly 73 (3): 615-627. 2022.It is widely held that it is good to conceive of one's life narratively, but why this is the case has not been well established. I argue that conceiving of one's life narratively can contribute to one's flourishing by mediating to oneself a second-person experience of oneself, furnishing one with valuable second-personal productive distance from oneself and as a result self-understanding. Drawing on Eleonore Stump's theory that narratives re-present to their audiences the second-person experienc…Read more
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