The publicized comment
by a feminist theologian at the «Re-imagining» conference a few years ago is only one example of the discomfort: «I don't...
But even on the issues later raised
by feminist theologians, The Secular City contains some hints and anticipations.
The publicized comment
by a feminist theologian at the «Re-imagining» conference a few years ago is only one example of the discomfort: «I don't think we need a theory of atonement at all.
Writings
by feminist theologians have little to say about this kind of partnership and not much about children, either.
Not exact matches
Henry would have no sympathy at all for the position advanced
by the process
theologians and accepted
by feminists and Alvin Plantmga, 4 who insist that genuine freedom requires complete immunity from divine control.
That may be why,
by and large, neither
theologians nor ecclesiastical hierarchs have taken seriously the challenge of reformist feminism within the church or radical
feminist religion without.
The founding fallacy in the new church was a «defective ecclesiology» that provided for governance
by a lay majority, dominated under a quota system
by minorities and
feminists, in which
theologians were marginalized and issues of race and gender took precedence over traditional ecclesial and confessional concerns.
Similarly, the quite different issues raised
by feminists properly have a priority for us that they do not yet have for most liberation
theologians.
Second, an increasing number of
feminist theologians are directing their energies toward the church's central doctrines and practices — justification
by faith, the incarnation, baptism and the Eucharist.
This failure can be illustrated with the same example, for although Marxists on the whole have been less sexist in their attitudes than have psychoanalysts, they appear only a little less deficient when viewed in the light of contemporary
feminist consciousness.37 Or, again, use of Marxist sociology
by Latin American
theologians of liberation has done little to free them from implicit anti-Judaism in their theological formulations.
Since its origins, many white
feminists have taken seriously the critiques of race and class initially raised
by womanist
theologians.
Some women, however, are read
by theologians, but Weil is not a force even among
feminist theologians.
Korean
feminist theologian Chung Hyun Kyung writes eloquently of a framework for knowing inscribed
by Asian women's experience of suffering:
Whereas in the»70s my «public image» was marked
by scholarly bifurcation — among scholars I was known as an «expert» on the Apocalypse and among women as an emerging
feminist theologian — this perception has changed dramatically in the»80s.
It has been raised again more recently in the face of the cultural challenges to dominant western theological formulations
by liberation,
feminist and Asian
theologians.
In one respect the shock to white male North American
theologians produced
by feminist theology was softened
by the parallel to Black theology.
With
feminist theologians and advocates of creation centered spirituality, mutually transformed
by the encounter with the new physics and the new biology, process
theologians have sought a vision of the relational matrix of creativity, and to learn from the wisdom of the earth and the embodiment of that wisdom in the all too long suppressed and neglected traditions of women, blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, of Africa and Asia.