- 142 pages
- English
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Introducing Feminist Ecclesiology
About this book
The church has always been a place of profound ambivalence for women. While the majority of those who attend church are women, women experience hierarchical exclusion and invisibility within its institutional structures. Throughout most of its history, women have not participated in the church's reflections on its own nature. And yet, feminist theologians claim that women are church and always have been church. This book explores women's experiences of being church and reclaiming the church in order to rebuild it as meaningful, open, sacramental space where everybody's presence is celebrated. Natalie Watson proposes a creative and constructive dialogue with existing theological approaches to the church, from different Christian traditions as well as more recent feminist theologians, and suggests the development of criteria which hear women's experiences of being church and reclaiming church into speech. The church is the embodied reality of all women, children and men whose stories tell the story of the Triune God. This book explores the ambivalence of women's experiences of being part of the church, yet often on men's terms, and seeks to establish a constructive and creative re-reading of ecclesiology from a feminist perspective.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Editors' Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Methodological Considerations: Towards a Framework of Ecclesiological Discourse
- 2. The Ambivalent Legacy of History
- 3. Models and Metaphors of Ambiguity and Alienation: Traditional Ecclesiologies under Feminist Scrutiny
- 4. Women-Church: Reclaiming Women's Being Church in Feminist Communities of Worship and Justice
- 5. Beyond Clericalism: Grappling with the Ordained Ministry
- 6. Celebrating Embodiment: Towards a Feminist Sacramental Ecclesiology
- 7. Beyond 'In' or 'Out': Reframing the Ecclesiological Debate
- 8. Communities that Embody the Story of God: Towards a Feminist Narrative Ecclesiology
- Bibliography
- Index of Authors