The Metaphysical Basis of the Difference between Men and Women

Trinitarian love is the basis of the male-female distinction. This makes drama the mediating analogy between anthropology and theology. The 'drama' of the intratrinitarian relations need not be conceived melodramatically, as relationships of power and submission, since persons are not only fallen but also redeemed. Unlike melodramatic characters, who are either victims or villains, characters in tragic and comic drama are many-sided, just as there are many ways of being male and female. A tragedy like King Lear provides an analogy for what masculinity and femaleness might be like within God; Lear is a father who wills to become vulnerable.