[D]eeply researched, well-argued, and poignantly relevant ... [I]mportant not only for Barth studies, but for the ongoing conversations regarding the significance of otherness, difference, and agency in theological anthropology. Anyone seeking to understand the issues and assets within Barth's own account, interested in engagement with existing secondary literature, and looking for a compelling correction to and relevant re-reading of Barth's Christological anthropology need look no further than Bodley-Dangelo's work. * Center for Barth Studies * Sexual Difference is a gift to Barth scholarship and to contemporary theological ethics and deserves a careful read ... in 181 deftly economical pages, Bodley-Dangelo demonstrates the sort of perspicacity one would want to see brought to bear on other parts of the Church Dogmatics as well ... Constructively engaging Barth on his own terms, Bodley-Dangelo makes space for the possibility of creative performances of sexual difference that are more in keeping with the concrete christological pattern of human agency he himself wishes to uphold. * International Journal of Systematic Theology * This is by far one of the most sophisticated and nuanced analyses of Barth on Gender and Sexuality we have in the English language. Dr. Bodley-Dangelo's powerful intervention might finally pull Barth Studies out of the quagmire of obsessive defense or impatient dismissal of Barth's Theological Anthropology. * Willie James Jennings, Yale Divinity School, USA * Of the many excellent studies of Barth on gender and sexual difference this one stands out as the best . Leading us through the complexities and ambiguities of Barth's position, Bodley-Dangelo offers a compelling account of what Barth actually said along with convincing reconstructions of what he might have said but regrettably did not. I recommend it enthusiastically for anyone who is interested in the theology of gender or the theology of Barth. * Gerald McKenny, Walter Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, USA * Bodley-Dangelo's searingly acute analysis reveals the breadth and depth of the problems in Karl Barth's theology with respect to sex, gender, and sexuality, as well as pointing a way beyond them. This book is a crucial new reference point for any adequate theological reception of Barth's thought. * David Clough, Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Chester, UK * Faye Bodley-Dangelo has tackled afresh the contentious subject of Barth's attitudes to women and gender in the Church Dogmatics, and given the subject a completely new hermeneutical and critical twist by a focus on Barth's christological account of human agency. This is a book of great sophistication, clarity and insight, and its lessons will need to be absorbed not only by Barth scholars but by all theologians who work on contemporary issues of gender and the Christian tradition. * Sarah Coakley, University of Cambridge, UK, and Australian Catholic University, Australia * By exploring Barth's Dogmatics through the lens of human agency rather than the ordering of central relationships, Bodley-Dangelo locates resources within Barth's theology that resist and challenge his sexist and heterosexist matrix. This close reading of Barth's construal of agency in his christocentric theological anthropology is a vital and compelling contribution to Barth scholarship, that neither overlooks nor overdetermines the gender trouble in Barth's theology. * Brandy Renee Daniels, University of Virginia, USA *