Feminist Theologies

Isherwood, Lisa

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Lisa Isherwood⁶

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This chapter examines a series of radical expressions of feminist theologies. It covers a diverse range of thinkers, emphasizing Rosemary Radford Ruether, Dolores Williams, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Maria Clara Bingemer, Marcella Althaus-Reid, Gabriele Dietrich, and Mayra Rivera. This chapter focuses on topics such as atonement, the Sophia, embodiment, postcoloniality, cosmology, and transcendence as sites of feminist radicalism.

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1.
Rosemary Ruether, Introducing Redemption in Christian Feminism (Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), 82.
2.
Ibid., 14.
3.
Rosemary Ruether, Sexism And God-Talk (London: SCM, 1983), 120.
4.
Ruether (1983), 110–111.
5.
Rita Brock, Journeys by Heart (New York: Crossroad, 1988).
6.
Delores Williams, Sisters in the Wilderness (New York: Orbis, 1993).
7.
Delores Williams, “Black Women’s Surrogate Experience and the Christian Notion of Redemption,” in After Patriarchy: Feminist Transformations of the World Religions, eds. W. Eakin, J. McDaniel, and P. Cooey (New York: Orbis, 1991), 12.
8.
Christine Gudorf, quoted in Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza and Shawn Copeland, Violence Against Women (London: Concilium, 1994), 14.
9.
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Jesus: Miriam’s Son, Sophia’s Prophet (New York: Continuum, 1994), 8.
10.
Ibid., 14.
11.
Ibid., 30.
12.
Maria Bingemar, “Women in the Future of the Theology of Liberation,” in Feminist Theology From the Third World, ed. Ursula King (London: SPCK, 1994), 317.
13.
Ibid., 317.
14.
Marcella Althaus-Reid, Indecent Theology (London: Routledge, 2001).
15.
Marcella Althaus-Reid, The Queer God (London: Routledge, 2003), 112.
16.
Ibid., 114.
17.
Ibid., 116.
18.
Gabriele Dietrich, in Chung Hyun Kyung, Struggle to be the Sun Again (London: SCM, 1991), 66.
19.
Ivone Gebara, Longing for Running Water (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999), 1.
20.
Ibid., 3.
21.
Ibid., 178.
22.
Catherine Keller, The Face of the Deep (London: Routledge, 2003), 56.
23.
Catherine Keller, “The Energy We Are,” in Cosmology, Ecology and the Energy of God, eds. D. Bowman and C. Crockett (New York: Fordham UP, 2012), 125.
24.
Ibid., 13.
25.
Lisa Isherwood, Liberating Christ (Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1999).
26.
Mayra Rivera, The Touch of Transcendence (London: WJK, 2007), 2.
27.
Ibid., 8.
28.
Ibid., 43.

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Isherwood, L. (2018). Feminist Theologies. In: Rodkey, C., Miller, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology. Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96595-6_37

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