Challenging women's orthodoxies in the context of faith - Susan Frank Parsons

Challenging Women's Orthodoxies in the Context of Faith marks a new stage in the development of theological thinking engaged with matters of gender. Providing an opening for work that is sensitive to the feminist and the gender critiques of culture and of theology, as well as to searching questions of faith, the several nuances of the title allow a diversity of response from contributors. The contributors seek, in the context of faith and of modern cultural feminisms, to find ways of being critical and orthodox. - - Philosophical considerations of nature and the natural, ethical reflections on sacrifice and holy living, and theological concerns of grace and justification, of hope and transcendence, find expression here. Through historical, pastoral, theological and philosophical studies, this collection offers examples of the kind of challenging scholarship that is possible in post-modernity; opening new windows onto a lively debate and suggesting a number of areas in which theological engagement with contemporary problems is taking place. Students and other readers exploring ethical, theological, pastoral and philosophical questions at the interface of faith and gender will find this book illuminating. - -