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| | Feminist theology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Feminist theologians have pioneered the use of non- or multi-gendered language for God, holding that language powerfully impacts belief about the behavior and essence of God. | | | Some of the goals of feminist theology include increasing the role of women among the clergy and religious authorities, reinterpreting male-dominated imagery and language about God, and studying images of women in the religion's sacred texts. | | | Feminist historical theologians study the roles of women in periods throughout history that have impacted religion: the Biblical period, the early Christian era, medieval Europe, and any period of import to a particular religion. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_theology
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| | Regent Carey Library Bibliographies - Feminist Theology |
| | The author defines feminist theology, within the Christian context, as that area of study pertaining to views about women and the activities, roles and practices of women found in the Scriptures, in the texts of the tradition, and in the theologies of the churches. | | | This is a travesty since feminist theology is here to stay and Christians must be aware of the issues and ideas involved in an area that is proving to have such a tremendous impact on the Church. | | | Unlike several of the more radical feminists who choose not to use the Bible as an authority of any kind, Ruether steadfastly focuses on a feminist theology within the confines of the Bible. |
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http://www.regent-college.edu/library/Biblio_feminist.html
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| | Feminist Hermeneutics and The Bible |
| | Evangelical feminists who uphold the integrity of the biblical text as the Word of God have done much to cause the Church to reexamine its views on the role of women in the Church. | | | While there is merit to her point that all theology starts from some context and that neglected aspects of feminine perspective ought to be incorporated into the theological tapestry of the faith, there is the inevitable problem of authority and truth raised by the elevation of experience to an interpretive key. | | | When modern Feminist theologians look at the text of the scriptures, they are quick to point out neglected aspects of the Word and are quick to challenge the "patriarchal" world views and assumptions that many consider to be biblical, but may indeed only be cultural. |
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http://www.scholarscorner.com/Critical/Feminist.html
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| | Liberation theology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 1980 the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith asked the General of the Society of Jesus (of which Kappen was a member) to censor this book. | | | Emphasis is placed on those parts of the Bible where Jesus' mission is described in terms of liberation, and as a bringer of justice. | | | Liberation theology focuses on Jesus as a liberator. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_theology
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| | Feminist Theology: An Introduction |
| | Feminist theologians are not just concerned to revise Church structures but to revise the Christian worldview which has, in the main, been centred around men and led to their oppression. | | | As far as feminist theologians are concerned God's Word is the kernel within a patriarchal shell which needs to be broken in order for them to apply it to their lives. | | | In the light of this brief introduction we can see that Feminist Theologians are more than just concerned with what happens in Church but, beginning from their own experience, to correct a distorted view of women in Christianity which has led to their mainstream discrimination and suppression in spiritual matters. |
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http://www.faithnet.org.uk/Theology/feministtheology.htm
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| | Secular feminists are humanists who disallow God, revelation, and religion in the discussion of feminism. | | | Evangelical feminists are those who generally (not always) hold to conservative views on the Bible and theology but who nevertheless embrace the feminist ideal of abolishing gender-based roles in society, church, and home. | | | Still other feminists deal with these verses by appealing to another possible meaning of the word "head." It is argued that Ephesians 5:23 — "For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church" — has nothing to do with the exercise of authority. |
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http://www.equip.org/free/DL100-3.htm
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| | Feminist Theology Online Bibliography |
| | This is not a "feminist" book, but it is richly rewarding for those interested in a review of ideas and concepts of God that have pertained over the milennia in Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, including traditions of mysticism. | | | Relative to post-Christian theology, Mary Daly is highly original and that's why I enjoy reading her work, but for a theological argument I prefer Daphne Hampson. | | | An "evangelical lesbian feminist," Mollenkott has written this highly readable book on a wide range of important topics from justice and diversity to sensuous spirituality and the "building of bridges between interpretive communities." Mollenkott's incisive intellect, bright humor, deep faith, and passionate courage ring clearly through these pages. |
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http://www.dike.de/hulda/fembib.html
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| | Mary in Feminist Theology: Mother of God or Domesticated Goddess? Fr. Manfred Hauke |
| | Feminists are particularly offended by the fact that, in the biblical symbolism of the sexes, the female role is subordinate to the male, most notably in the parallel drawn between the relations of Christ to the Church and the Bridegroom and Bride. | | | That such religious symbolism is treated by feminists as bearing exclusively on the image of God, but on the collaborative role of man and the Church, seems connected with Protestant assumptions that give stress, in the redemptive process, to the solus Deus. | | | Otherwise, the Immaculata dogma is a source of irritation to feminists, including Daly: Mary is placed on a unreachably high pedestal and cannot serve as a genuine model for all real women. |
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http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/mhauke_maryfem_july05.asp
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| | Feminist Theology |
| | Feminist Theology is a component of our lives we need to acknowledge and reclaim from the days of our ancestors. | | | Feminist Theology, like its counterpart Liberation Theology serves to deconsecrate oppressive structures and restruck a more realistic environment where we can live holistic lives as people of God. | | | Therefore this new development of Feminist Theology, helps us recognize a new diversity of women not just from a white middle class western society, but also women of various cultural, political, economical and religious approach to life in a Christocentric and Theocentric world view of life. |
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http://www.scm.org.nz/SET2000/Feminist-theology.htm
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| | fear & trembling: "Feminist theology and a generous orthodoxy" |
| | Theology and worship for feminists have a specific political function, and that is not particularly or obviously in any way the turn of the soul towards God. | | | The solution for McCreight is a more charitable feminism rather than the shoot-to-kill style of her feminist forbears: "I am a feminist, and I am a theologian," she concludes, "but I am not a feminist theologian, and this is specifically because of the ungenerous nature of much of the feminist theology I have read... | | | "that theology and worship have a self-serving purpose for feminists." |
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http://plax.typepad.com/fear_trembling/2005/09/feminist_theolo.html
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| | Reclaiming Women's Experience, by Marian Ronan |
| | While acknowledging her debt to an earlier generation of Christian feminist theologians, Harrison observed a continuation of the traditional Christian split between spirit and matter in some of that theology -- otherworldly reversals in Mary Daly's work, for example, which Harrison linked to Daly's Thomist background. | | | The Pentecostal faith of Appalachian women is likewise discursively complex, even contradictory, with self-denigrating discourses graf(ph)ted onto biblical texts that nourish women as "vessels of God," and repressive dress-codes offset by the pleasures of women's worship performances (298). | | | Not only does mujerista theology maintain that the person has an absolute duty never to act against her conscience, she also has a right to have this freedom of conscience recognized by the institutional church. |
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http://www.aril.org/ronan.htm
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| | Christian Century: Women's work: feminist theology for a new generation |
| | 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. | | | But unlike earlier waves of feminist theology, in which appeals to women's experience were a wakeup call about women's marginalization, today feminist theologians turn to women's narratives as a source of embodied knowledge. | | | At a time in which the diversity of feminist theology defies tidy definitions and agreed-upon agendas, "doing saving work" suggests what's afoot in feminist theology today--namely, bold reinterpretations of Christianity that seek to renew the life of the church and its witness to the world. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_15_122/ai_n15674351
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| | Feminist Theology |
| | The issues raised by Feminist theology are not unimportant for the life of the Church. | | | Feminists see their task, then, to be the recovery of these teachings of Jesus. | | | Faced with a Church and an understanding of Scripture heavily influenced by patriarchal views, Feminist theology--as did the emerging Black Theology of Liberation--built a new understanding of the Christian faith by appealing to the Jesus of Luke's gospel. |
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http://www.wfu.edu/~matthetl/perspectives/twentyeight.html
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| | Circling Deeper - Feminist Theology |
| | Feminist Theology from the Third World: A Reader, Ursula King, ed., Orbis, 1994, includes the insights of dynamic women theologians from many diverse perspectives and societies, with an emphasis on "doing theology" in the active mode, responding to and being responsible for action. | | | As women's studies - the academic arm of the women's movement - developed, religion and its reflective discourse in theology were perceived early on to legitimate patriarchy and sexism in society's institutions. | | | When home and family life, education, the churches and synagogues, and the various pro-fessions all came under feminist academic scrutiny, scholars pointed out that religious and theological views of women had helped to shaped subordinating social structures and women's own negative self-perceptions. |
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http://www.sinsinawa.org/Spiritual_Enrichment/Circlingdeeper/6.html
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| | feminist theology |
| | Feminist Theology and Spirituality Links Links to feminist theology from a variety of faith traditions. | | | Under Sheikhina's Wings This site provides outlines of the impact of feminist theology in Judaism, Christianity, the Earth Religions and Islam, plus some things which are anti-women in some of these religions. | | | Christian + Feminist A site maintained by Elizabeth T Knuth and decidated to the idea that faith and feminism are not mutually exclusive |
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http://www.flynni.com/feminist_theology.htm
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| | Janus Head/1-2/Elizabeth A. Say: Many voices, many visions: toward a feminist methodology for narrative theology and ... |
| | Second, Jagger asserts that a feminist approach must be able to address issues in both the public and the private realms while at the same time acknowledging the problematic nature of the public/private division. | | | In addition, both liberation theology and feminist theology critique the experience of oppression from a spiritual as well as a political point of view. | | | There are strong parallels between liberation theology and narrative theology insofar as both begin with the primacy of experience as the starting point for theological reflection. |
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http://www.janushead.org/JHFall98/elizsay.cfm
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| | Revive Our Hearts Radio: Feminist Theology? |
| | But in the feminist movement women began to say, “Yes, we need to re-evaluate our whole concept of God.” Because their saying was, “If God is male, then the male is god.” The reason we have a male god is because men have crafted and created this god in their own image. | | | We are going to define who God is. And one feminist lady said, “I found god in myself, and I love her fiercely.” That was what women began to look at saying, “Our unique differences, we are able to give birth, we are able to create life within our wombs. | | | When someone attacks the nature of God, as some feminists do, our best response is to focus on who God really is and to worship Him. |
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http://www.reviveourhearts.com/radio/roh/today.php?pid=9006
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| | Amazon.com: Introducing Feminist Christologies (Introductions in Feminist Theology): Books: Lisa Isherwood |
| | "Theology lived by women is not about systems of dogma, doctrines, and categories...Once women start theological reflection from their own embodied experience and from the earth, the face of theology changes," writes the author. | | | The author attempts to chart a course from questioning the relevance of a male savior to women-the many faces of Christ that have emerged from the lives of women (Jesus as lover, friend, or shaman, amongst other things)-to a place of reflection about the nature of Christological thinking in the twenty-first century. | | | Subjects > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Theology > Christology |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0829814833?v=glance
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| | Feminist and Womanist Pastoral Theology by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore, ISBN 0687089107 And Over the Wall by John H. ... |
| | These changes have critical implications for care within congregations and for the understanding of theology in seminaries and dignity schools. Yet these developments in the theory and practice of pastoral theology and their broader ramifications have not been carefully analyzed or even acknowledged by pastoral theologian, minister, and religion scholar alike. | | | This is due to a failure to articulate clear understandings of the field, the gap between congregational ministry and higher education in religion, and conflicts in theological education in general over the place of practice and theory, experience, spirituality, and practical theology. To redress these problems, this collection of essays has a threefold aim. | | | Third, the authors attend to the implications of these changes for congregational care and theological education. |
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http://www.susanhartlindquist.com/feministo.htm
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| | WSSLinks: [Topic] |
| | This site is dedicated to ecofeminist and feminist spirituality "visions for the renewal of life." Features excerpts from works on spiritual ecology, ecofeminism, and feminist spirituality from many traditions and perspectives. | | | women in religion, feminist theology, and the feminine divine. | | | The Women's Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual is a justice-oriented organization and feminist spirituality education center. |
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http://www.earlham.edu/~libr/acrlwss/wsstheo.html
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| | In Memory of Her by Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza |
| | Classical prophetic theology, often in abusive language, polemicized against the pagan idols and thus rejected goddess worship, but it did not do so in defense of a male God and a patriarchal idol. | | | Since the content of the tradition is Christ, feminist theology must make clear "that Christ's work was not first of all that of being male but that of being the new human. | | | Sunshine for Women encourages you to support our feminist sisters by purchasing their books, reading them, disseminating the ideas they contain, but most especially, by making their book available to our sisters, our daughters, and the community at large by requesting your school library, your public library, and area bookstores to carry their books. |
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| | AAR Syllabi Project: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective (Pui-lan and Russell) |
| | Mujerista Theology: A Theology for the Twenty-First Century. | | | The purpose in teaching this course was to open up the horizon of women and men to the riches of theological perspectives available from women whose voices are not ordinarily heard in white feminist discourse. | | | Asian Women Doing Theology: Report from the Singapore Conference, November 20-29, 1987. |
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http://www.aarweb.org/syllabus/syllabi/feminist_theology-puilan_and_russell.html
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| | Christianity and Feminism |
| | Pellauer, Mary D. Toward a Tradition of Feminist Theology: The Religious Social Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Anna Howard Shaw. | | | This page includes information on the Bible, Catholicism, Early Church, General Information, Liberation Theology, the the Middle Ages, Protestantism, and Theology in general. | | | The Redemption of God: A Theology of Mutual Relation. |
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http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/chris.html
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| | WMST 230 - Feminist Theology and Feminist Theory |
| | No prior knowledge of feminist theology is required, though some work in women's studies or religious studies, especially WMST 100 and WMST/RS 140, will be very useful. | | | Classic Statements in Feminist Theology, in which we will read major influential works by Mary Daly and Rosemary Ruther | | | Carolyn Osiek, "The Feminist and The Bible: Hermeneutical Alternatives" (course reader) |
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http://www.csuchico.edu/mcgs/syllabi/SYL_01-wmst230mccarthy.html
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| | Theology |
| | Feminist Studies in Religion and a Radical Democratic Ethos 1995 article by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in the South African journal "Religion & Theology" | | | Experiential Education and the Transformation of Liberation Theology Article by Charles R. Strain in Journal of Religion and Society, 2000 | | | Black Theology in American Religion Article by James H. Cone in Theology Today, 1986 |
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http://www.shc.edu/theolibrary/theology.htm
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| | SAGE Publications - Feminist Theology |
| | While it does not restrict itself to the work of feminist theologians and thinkers in these islands, Feminist Theology aims to give a voice to the women of Britain and Ireland in matters of theology and religion. | | | The editors intend Feminist Theology to reflect its founding principles of experience, mutuality, creativity, respect, joy, nurture, accessible scholarship and hearing women to speech. | | | Feminist Theology, whilst academic in its orientation, is deliberately designed to be accessible to a wide range of readers, whether theologically trained or not. |
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http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journal.aspx?pid=106700
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