Women and Redemption: A Theological History

Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Preface: Second Edition xv
Introduction 1
1. I n Christ No More Male and Female?
T he Question of Gender and Redemption
in the New Testament 11
Gender Equality in the First Jesus Movement 12
From Reassembled Jesus Movement to Early Hellenistic Mission 17
Jewish and Early Christian Readings of Genesis 19
Redemption and Gender in Conflict in Pauline Churches 24
Gender and Redemption in Two Forms of Pauline Churches 31
2. Gender and Redemption in the Patristic Era:
Conflicting Perspectives 37
Trajectories of Early Christianity 37
Gender and Redemption in Some Second-Century Christianities 42
Two Late Patristic Syntheses: Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine 50
3. male Scholastics and Women mystics
in medieval theology 65
Hildegard of Bingen 67
Thomas Aquinas 76
Mechthild of Magdeburg 79
Julian of Norwich 84
4. male Reformers, Feminist humanists,
and Quakers in the Reformation 93
Gender in the Theological Anthropology of Luther and Calvin 96
Renaissance Feminism and the Debate about Women 103
Women in Radical Protestantism: Civil War Prophets and Quakers 111
5. Shakers and Feminist abolitionists
in nineteenth-Century north america 121
The Shaker Tradition: From England to North America 122
Abolitionist Feminists 131
6. Feminist theologies in twentieth-Century
Western europe 149
Feminist Theology and German Protestantism 149
Feminist Theology and Catholicism 158
Kari Elisabeth Børresen 158
Catharina Halkes 161
Mary Grey 164
European Feminist Theology in the 1990s 168
7. Feminist, Womanist, and mujerista theologies
in twentieth-Century north america 175
Letty Russell 177
Mary Daly 180
Rosemary Ruether 186
Carter Heyward 188
Delores Williams 192
Ada María Isasi-Díaz 195
8. Feminist theologies in latin america, africa, and asia 203
Feminist Theology in Latin America 206
African Feminist Theology 213
Asian Feminist Theologies 220
9. emerging Feminist theologies: post-Coloniality
and the Voices of the Fourth World 231
Postcolonialism and Theology 232
Fourth World Feminist Theologies 239
Conclusions 251
notes 259
index 325