Introducing Feminist Ecclesiology by Natalie Watson

Introducing Feminist Ecclesiology by Natalie Watson

The church has always been a place of profound ambivalence for women. While the majority of those who attend church are women, women experience hierarchical exclusion and invisibility within its institutional structures. Throughout most of its history, women have not participated in the church's reflections on its own nature. And yet, feminist theologians claim that women are church and always have been church. This book explores women's experiences of being church and reclaiming the church in order to rebuild it as meaningful, open, sacramental space where everybody's presence is celebrated. Natalie Watson proposes a creative and constructive dialogue with existing theological approaches to the church, from different Christian traditions as well as more recent feminist theologians, and suggests the development of criteria which hear women's experiences of being church and reclaiming church into speech. The church is the embodied reality of all women, children and men whose stories tell the story of the Triune God.

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ISBN 13	9780826462541
ISBN 10	0826462545
Title	Introducing Feminist Ecclesiology
Author	Natalie Watson
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2002-10-17
Number of pages	144
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