In this magisterial work of historical theology, the author provides the first comprehensive analysis of how the patriarchal paradigm developed and its challenge by the feminist paradigm over twent…
Christianity begins with what appears to be an inclusive promise of redemption in Christ without regard to gender. Paul proclaimed that 'In Christ there is no more male and female' Yet Christianity…
The Preface to this 1974 collection states, "Much of the current literature in the women's movement has been written by women who are alienated from religion and who, although perhaps occasionally …
Are feminism and Christianity compatible? Can women be saved by a male savior? For too long most interpretations of religious experience have come from a male elite perspective that has excluded wo…
Since the Nazi holocaust took the lives of a third of the Jewish people of the world, the Christian Church has been engaged in a self-examination of its own historical role in the creation of anti-…
For many Protestants the dogma of the Roman Catholic church in relation to Mary has been mysterious and inscrutable. It has caused them to pull away from Mary and assume that doctrines about Mary a…
A compilation of essays on the role of women in the institutional and ordained leadership of Western religion. The authors discuss religious women as charismatic leaders, holy women, martyrs, disse…