Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love

By Kerrie Handasyde, Cathryn McKinney, Rebekah Pryor

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Book Description

This book explores the issues of power, authority and love with current concerns in the Christian theological exploration of feminism and feminist theology.

It addresses its key themes in three parts. Power deals with feminist critiques; Authority unpacks feminist methodologies; and Love explores feminist ethics. Covering issues such as embodiment, intersectionality, liberation theologies, historiography, queer approaches to hermeneutics, philosophy and more, it provides a multi-layered and nuanced appreciation of this important area of theological thought and practice.

This volume will be vital reading for scholars of Feminist Theology, Queer Theology, Process Theology and Practical Theology, as well as Religion and Gender.

Table of Contents

Introduction: To Speak, To Say Anything At All
Rebekah Pryor, Cathryn McKinney and Kerrie Handasyde

Part I Power: Dis/locations and Reclamations

1 Speaking Up! Speaking Out! Naming the Silences: Women, Power, Authority and Love in the Pacific
Seforosa Carroll

2 Witnessing to What Remains, or The Power of Persisting: Power, Authority, and Love in the Interim Spaces
Nicola Slee

3 From Footballs to Matildas? Gender Diverse People and Theological Game Change
Josephine Inkpin

4 Reading and Process: Rethinking Power
Brian Macallan

5 The Problem with Powerlessness: Attending to Power and Authority in Matthew’s Wisdom Christology
Sally Douglas

Part II Authority: Subversions and Contestations

6 “How could it be otherwise?” Sacramental Imagination and Political Rites
Katharine Massam

7 Mother, Preacher, Press: Women Ministers and the Negotiation of Authority, 1910- 1933
Kerrie Handasyde

8 Reforming Women in England and Scotland: Claiming Authority to Speak of God
Ann Loades

9 Against and Without Authority: Writing Feminist Theology After the End of History
Janice McRandal

Part III Love: Embodiment and Practice

10 Roadsides: Toward an Ecological Feminist Theology of Cross-Species Compassion
Anne Elvey

11 Covenantal Relationships and Queer Bodies
Anika Jensen and Katecia Taylor with Stephen Burns

12 Re-visioning (the) Love/Command: Law, Authority, and the Logic of Love in the Philosophy of Pamela Sue Anderson and Paul’s Letter to the Galatians
Sean Winter

13 Writing the Image to Forgiveness and Love
Helena Kadmos

14 Thinking, Dancing: Exploring the Gaps Between Ecstasy and Distress
Rebekah Pryor

15 Speaking of Being Heard: Voice and Purpose in Prison
Cathryn McKinney