Riding the storms of change : from reform and reconstruction to indecency and queer theology / Angie Pears

A. Pears

This article recognizes the impact of feminist discourses on Christianity over the last fifty years. It critically engages and deconstructs a variety of the key theological and methodological mechanisms by which various feminist informed theologies are informed, sustained and indeed claimed to be viable by feminist values and critiques. It incorporates a shift away from a discourse characterized by questions of compatibility and incompatibility, to one focused on method. The key research question posed in this article is: `How do each of the theologies investigated employ radical insights of feminisms while at the same time claim to maintain a clear relationship to the perceived Christian tradition?'