The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology (Cambridge Companions to Religion) [Paperback]

Susan Frank Parsons (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0521663806 | ISBN-13: 978-0521663809 | Publication Date: August 12, 2002

This book is a critical guide to the scholarly exploration of feminist theology. It describes the main features of this modern theological development and examines its major concerns and questions. It presents comprehensive and critical analyses of the essential matters of Christian doctrine written by contributors knowledgeable in feminist theology. The book presents a challenge for future scholarship, since it critically engages with the assumptions of feminist theology, and seeks to open ways for women after feminism to enter into the vocation of theology.

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"...what awaits readers is a fine collection of essays on the shape and themes of Christian feminist thought. ...clearly written and suitable for students of women and religion classes as well as divinity school theology courses that need a feminist infusion." Feminist Collections

"A fine collection of essays..." Religious Studies Review

"This Companion to feminist theology, edited by Parsons (Cambridge Univ.), offers engaging and provocative essays by a range of feminist theologians from around the world, including Rosemary Radford Ruether, Rita Gross, Carol Christ, Kwok Pui-lan, and Mercy Amba Oduyoye.... The 'new readers and non-specialists' that this book seeks as its audience will be well served by the diversity of essays presented here. Recommended." Choice

"I would highly recommend [this text] for a wide range of readers, from the seasoned academic to the interested novice." Christian Century

Book Description

This book is a critical guide to the scholarly exploration of feminist theology. Firstly, it describes the main features of this modern theological development and examines what its major concerns and questions have been, helping students and teachers to understand its place in the context of contemporary theology as a whole. Secondly, it presents analyses of the essential matters of Christian doctrine written by those who have learned from feminist theology. These chapters on the themes of feminist theology demonstrate how women are engaging in primary theological reflection today.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (August 12, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0521663806
• ISBN-13: 978-0521663809
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Informative, insightful, and at times disturbing, February 8, 2005

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Neville G. Kiser "NGK" (Pasadena, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Theology (Cambridge Companions to Religion) (Paperback)

If I was rating this book based on how much of it I theologically agreed with it on, then the stars would be less for sure. But this isn't a personal slam review. It's supposed to be a review of the book at large, and so, that is what I'm attempting to do.

I've always been fascinated with feminist theology and this is a perfect place to begin if you're just starting out researching such a broad field of scholarship. I'm a guy, yes, but I'd consider myself to be a conservative feminist theologian (which is highly nuanced to say, I know). So, many of the essays in this book captivated me (not just because they were writing from perspectives I had never considered before, but also because of how creatively these writers were twisting and bending feminist theological study and theology of religions study into their own, morphed, personalized perspective). It is refreshing but at the same time, it gets a little tiring now and then. For insance, one essay seems to be solely attacking other feminist theologians for being too "exclusive" in their political, social and theological stances but yet, it ends up being way more exclusive then all the essays within the entire book because of how it eventually makes this outlined, detailed, specific, this-is-how-feminist-scholarship-must-be-practiced kind of roadmap. By the end of reading this essay, I was frustrated with this scholar by her lack of academic professionalism.

However, like I said at the beginning, I don't want this review to turn into personal attacks or theologically-messed-up griping on my part. Having said that, this book is a solid addition to any library lacking studies done or articles written or history recorded on the birth, rebirth, and continually growing fieled of feminist theology.