Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xii, 212 pages; 22 cm

Summary

1. "Kathleen Sands here mounts a trenchant and original critique of Christian theology's account of evil and tragedy. Contemporary experience is, she says, "riddled through and through with tragedy and tragic conflict." Yet Christian theology still lives in a "paradise," denying the irreplaceable loss and irresolvable conflict that are central and undeniable features of our time." "With a sure and sharp grasp of both the Christian tradition and the postmodern situation, Sands faults mainstream and feminist theologies for failing to take evil seriously, for failing to recognize the inescapably tragic character of life. Moreover, she finds this true not only of reform or revisionist feminist theologies (such as Rosemary Ruether's) but also of more radical, Goddess thealogies (such as Carol Christ's). She urges instead entry into the actual world as seen in women's religious experience. And she constructs evocative proposals for how a sensitivity to the tragic could enhance the power and credibility of feminist theology. "The wound of tragedy," she says, "carries clues about the openings and vulnerabilities that define our moral lives.""--Jacket.

Subject

1. Ruether, Rosemary Radford
2. Christ, Carol P
3. Ruether, Rosemary Radford
4. Feminist theology
5. Good and evil
6. Tragic, The
7. Feminist theology > Controversial literature
8. Good and evil > Religious aspects > Christianity
9. Good and evil > Religious aspects > Christianity
10. Feminist theology
11. Good and evil
12. Tragic, The
13. Feministische Theologie
14. Het Kwaad
15. Feministische theologie

Genre/Form

1. Controversial literature

Contents

1. 1. A mermaid in the ship's cabin : tragic consciousness as a heuristic foundation for theology -- 2. The one and the other : the career of evil in androcentric theology -- 3. Escape from paradise : responses to evil in religious feminism -- 4. Lilith and Eve : sisters in struggle -- 5. Renaturing a fallen world : the theology of Rosemary Radford Ruether -- 6. A desiring nature : the thealogical quest of Carol P. Christ -- 7. A world of color : the promise of a tragic heuristic.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-207) and index.