Feminist Theologies

Rebekah Pryor is an artist, curator, and researcher at the University of Divinity, Australia. Stephen Burns is professor of liturgical and practical theology at Pilgrim Theological College, Melbourne, Australia.

A very timely and necessary volume, Feminist Theologies: Interstices and Fractures is not a book to ignore. Each chapter invites new, refreshing and creative conversations (polyvocal ones) on gender justice and feminist theology. Descriptors that sum up the contributions include provocative, imaginative, expansive, persistent, unsettling, wild, uncontainable, beyond prescribed limits — and much more. These descriptors, however, do not do justice to the creative working of intersections, especially in conversation with the arts and the artistic, plunging into the cracks and gaps of theological interstices to unearth, draw on, and connect with life flourishing resilience and wisdom. Here is excellent work that offers wings, colours, tempos, and adventure in God-talk in Australia and beyond.

• 1.Against Innocence: Feminism and Original Sin Peter Kline2.Standing at the Corner of Sin and Grace Shannon Craigo-Snell3.“Because of the Angels” (1 Cor. 11:10): Ancient and Contemporary Threats to WomenSally Douglas4.In Spite of the Angels: Reading Paul and Freedom StruggleJin Young Choi5.Mother Language, Mother Church, Mother EarthCristina Lledo Gomez6.The Veil of MotherMarie-Elsa Bragg7.“You Don’t Understand Me”: Serena Williams, Christology, and Non-IdentityJanice McRandal 8.Why Misunderstanding Matters: Whiteness Made Visible to White EyesJenny Daggers9.Equal, Equivalent, or Something New: Gender, Sexuality, and Theology in the Episcopal Church’s Rites of Marriage and PartnershipBryan Cones10.Partner, Husband, Friend? The Sacramentality of a Same-Sex RelationshipJoseph N. Goh11.Common Ground: The Gift of Womanist Theology in the Midst of the #MeToo EraMaggie Kappelhoff 12.This Is My Body: Re-Making the Maternal Image in Terms o