Resource theme: Feminist Theology
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The Persistent Widow (Luke 18: 1-10)
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Opening Prayer Loving God, Open our hearts to receive your wisdom. Amen Exegesis and Reflection Caught in a web of patriarchy, and living under an oppressive power of a 1st century agrarian society that supported the elite and rendered the marginalised invisible, a widow comes to an unjust judge and pleads for help. Under the…
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Feminist and Queer Approaches to Scripture
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It is the opinion of most feminist theologians that the church has, historically, marginalised and silenced women, and that it has employed well-recognised techniques for doing do. One of the ways in which this has happened has been through the systematic writing out of women from scripture and history – that is to say they…
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Feminist Theology 101
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Feminist theology (or more properly, theologies) has emerged in modern times as a challenge to the male bias in religion and society as a whole. Although feminist theology has many significant roots in pre-modern history, it has only emerged as a fully conscious movement with its own literature, spokespersons, principles and methods in the past three or four decades. Influenced and…