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An analysis of representative Christian feminist responses to the Christian soteriological tradition: Sin, cross, and community
by Harrington, Linda S., PhD, THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, 2007, 0 pages; 3283444
 

Abstract: From the first generation, Christians have proclaimed that God's salvation, promised to Israel long ages ago, has come into the world in the person of Jesus Christ and continues to be present through the power of the Holy Spirit, and each generation of Christians has reflected on what it means to say that we are saved in Jesus Christ, seeking a way to articulate the truth of God's salvation for their own time while remaining true to that original kerygma. In the last several decades, feminist Christian theologians have joined that conversation, bringing a perspective that they say the general tradition has ignored as irrelevant and immaterial. In particular, feminist Christian theologians bring three questions to the Christian soteriological tradition: (1) Is the traditional Christian definition of sin as pride and disobedience so one-sided as to actually draw women deeper into sin? (2) Does Christian theology of the cross so glorify suffering that it provides license for abuse? (3) Does the traditional Christian emphasis on Jesus' maleness exclude women from the fullness of the salvation he brings? This project explores the wide-ranging discussion of those questions among Christian feminist theologians with an eye to discerning, in conversation with their critics, what contributions discourse from the feminist perspective brings to the wider Christian theological discourse.

 
Advisor: Loewe, William P.
School: THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
Source: DAI-A 68/09, p. 3911, Mar 2008
Source Type: PhD
Subjects: Womens studies; Theology
Publication Number: 3283444
     
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