Trinity, Embodiment and Gender

Abstract

This article will scrutinize the approaches of Janet Martin Soskice and Gavin D’Costa to the Trinity, embodiment and gender. It argues that the doctrine of the Trinity is closely connected with embodiment, and assesses Soskice’s and D’Costa’s answers to gender-related questions that have arisen from the connection between embodiment and the Trinity. The aim of the article is firstly to prove that orthodox interpretations of the doctrine of the Trinity are not essentially exclusive to women, and secondly that the Trinitarian approach provides an intriguing model by which to understand sexual difference at the human level.