| Description |
viii, 370 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Part I: The feminist Christological problem -- 2. The feminist Christological problem -- traditionalist and Androcentric Christology -- Post-biblical feminist critique -- The challenge of feminist Christian religious experience -- Context in contemporary Christology -- Summary: the feminist Christological task -- 3. Toward an adequate feminist Christology: Methodology and criteria -- Methodology: conversation -- Criteria of adequacy -- Toward an adequate feminist Christology -- Part II: The relation of women's experience to Christology -- 4. The construction of women's experience in feminist theory and theology -- Introduction -- Women's religious experience in narrative form -- Women's experience defined -- The shape of human experience -- The difference difference makes -- 5. Resistance and transformation as religious experience -- The experience of victims as the ground for metaphysics and ethics -- Religious experience as participation and distanciation -- 6. The relation of women's experience to Christology -- The relation of experience and tradition -- The shape of tradition -- The recovery of traditions of wholeness and freedom -- The relation of women's experience to Christology -- Criteria of adequacy, revisited -- Part III: Toward a contemporary feminist Christology -- 7. The paradigmatic and prophetic Christ -- The problem of Christology in white feminist theology -- Christology -- Introduction to Ruether's Christology -- The character of human existence -- Methodology for liberation -- Christology and Christian anti-Judaism -- Critique -- The prophetic paradigm -- Christology and Christian misogyny -- Critique -- Corrective: The full humanity of women -- Christology reconstructed -- Jesus the messianic prophet -- The iconoclastic, prophetic Christ -- God/ess as matrix and liberator -- Conversion, liberation, transformation -- The shalom of God/ess -- The male savior and the kenosis of patriarchy -- Summary and evaluation: prophetic iconoclasm as proclamation -- 8. The decisive representation of self-giving love -- A feminist Christological problem -- The Christology of Patricia Wilson-Kastner -- Introduction -- The character of human existence -- Methodology for understanding -- Christology -- Critique -- Construction -- Salvation and wholeness -- Summary and evaluation -- 9. The revelation of God to us -- Introduction -- The character of human existence -- method for appropriation -- Christology -- Critique -- Construction -- Salvation and harmony -- The God who is presence, wisdom, and power -- Eschatological harmony -- Summary and evaluation -- 10. Christ, mutuality, and justice -- Introduction -- The character of human existence -- The praxis of relational co-operation -- Christology -- Critique -- Corrective: the liberating relation with God -- Christic power -- The redemption of God -- God as relational power -- The mutuality of love and justice -- Summary and evaluation -- 11. Wisdom-logos Christology in feminist perspective -- 12. The re-presentation of resistance and transformation -- Summary of the study -- A constructive sketch -- Broadening the conversation: womanist Christologies. |
| Note |
Originally published as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, 1991. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [353]-368) and index. |
| Subject |
Jesus Christ -- Person and offices.
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Feminist theology.
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| Indexed Term |
Christology |
| ISBN |
0819194387 alkaline paper |
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0819194395 paperback alkaline paper |
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