Dannaya kniga raskryvaet slozhnuyu istoriyu formirovaniya khristianskogo predstavleniya o pole i ego otnoshenii k obrazu Bozhiemu v cheloveke. Na primere trekh vazhneyshikh etapov v stanovlenii vostochnokhristianskoy antropologii -patristika II - VII vv., russkaya religioznaya filosofiya kontsa XIX - nachala XX vv., a takzhe polemika o vozmozhnosti zhenskogo svyashchenstva v XX veke - avtor raskryvaet i obosnovyvaet dva vazhnykh tezisa otnositel'no khristianskogo ponimaniya polovoy dual'nosti. Vo-pervykh, v ramkakh khristianskoy antropologii svyaz' pola i obraza Bozhiya v cheloveke yavlyaetsya sushchestvoennoy. A, vo-vtorykh, eta svyaz' vyrazhaetsya v tom, chto muzhskoe i zhenskoe nachala, yavlyaya soboy ravnye i raznye sposoby bytiya, proobrazuyut razlichie sposobov bytiya Lits Bozhestvennoy Troitsy.