American Academy of Religion academy series The bonds of freedom: Feminist theology and Christian realism
Rebekah Miles
- U.S.A Oxford University 2001
- 206tr. Hardcover 24cm
Miles proposes a new feminist theological ethic in this constructive study, drawing together the contributions of Reinhold Niebuhr, Sharon Welch, and Rosemary Ruether. Seeking to critically reappropriate the Christian realism articulated by Niebuhr, she reinterprets solutions to problems emergent from his theology. Miles presents feminist Christian realism as an alternative that can reclaim a positive interpretation of divine transcendence and human self-transcendence while maintaining newer emphases on human boundedness and divine immanence. Theologians and ethicists will find her critical reassessment of the three authors distinctive and her challenging proposal for a `positive creative transformation` a significant contribution to the development of feminist ethics.