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Author Miles, Rebekah, 1960-

Title The bonds of freedom : feminist theology and Christian realism / Rebekah L. Miles
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 206 pages)
Series American Academy of Religion academy series
American Academy of Religion academy series.
Contents Freedom and boundedness : a feminist Christian realist account -- Whats so bad about Reinhold Niebuhr? : feminist criticisms of Niebuhr -- Freedom for the world: Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian realism -- The evolution of cooperation and consciousness : Rosemary Ruether's naturalist moral realism -- Battling for truth in the beloved community : Sharon Welch's relativist political realism -- Dueling realisms : Ruether, Welch, Niebuhr, and a feminist Christian realism
Summary In this constructive study, Miles proposes a new feminist theological ethic, 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Feminist theology.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Systematic.
Feminist theology
Feministische Theologie
Feministische theologie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1423762134
9781423762133
0195144163
9780195144161