Challenging Women's Orthodoxies in the Context of Faith
Heythrop Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Religion & Theology
Series Editor
Laurence Paul Hemming, Heythrop College, University of London, UK
Series Editorial Advisory Board
John McDade SJ; Peter Vardy; Michael Barnes SJ; James Hanvey SJ;
Philip Endean SJ; Anne Murphy SHCJ
Drawing on renewed willingness amongst theologians and philosophers to enter into critical dialogues with contemporary issues, this series is characterised by Heythrop's reputation for openness and accessibility in academic engagement. Presenting volumes from a wide international, ecumenical, and disciplinary range of authors, the series explores areas of current theological, philosophical, historical, and political interest. The series incorporates a range of titles: accessible texts, cutting-edge research monographs, and edited collections of essays. Appealing to a wide academic and intellectual community interested in philosophical, religious and theological issues, research and debate, the books in this series will also appeal to a theological readership which includes enquiring lay-people, Clergy, members of religious communities, training priests, and anyone engaging broadly in the Catholic tradition and with its many dialogue partners.
Published titles
Radical Orthodoxy? A Catholic Enquiry Edited by Laurence Paul Hemming
Forthcoming titles include:
Biblical Morality Mary Mills
Postmodernity's God Laurence Paul Hemming
God as Trinity James Hanvey
Religion Within the Limits of Language Alone Felicity McCutcheon
Reading Ecclesiastes Mary Mills
Challenging Women's Orthodoxies in the Context of Faith
Edited by
Susan Frank Parsons
First published 2000 by Ashgate Publishing
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Jenny Daggers is a practical theologian, who has recently completed her PhD on recent British feminist theology at the University of Manchester.
Lucy Gardner is Tutor in Christian Doctrine at St. Stephen's House, Oxford. She is a co-author of Balthasar at the End of Modernity (Edinburgh, T&T Clark, 1999), and a contributor to Radical Orthodoxy? A Catholic Enquiry (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000).
James Hanvey SJ is Head of Systematic Theology at Heythrop College, University of London. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Heythrop Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Religion, and Theology, and a contributor to Radical Orthodoxy? A Catholic Enquiry (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000).
Laurence Paul Hemming is Assistant Dean of Research Students at Heythrop College, University of London. He is editor of Radical Orthodoxy? A Catholic Enquiry (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2000), and of the series Heythrop Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Religion, and Theology.
Georgina Morley is Director of Studies of the North East cumenical Course in Durham, and has recently completed her PhD on the theology of John Macquarrie at the University of Nottingham.
Rachel Muers is working on a PhD at the University of Cambridge focusing on the theme of silence in recent Christian theology.
Anne Murphy SHCJ is a Lecturer in the Pastoral Theology Department at Heythrop College, University of London. She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Heythrop Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Religion, and Theology.
Susan Frank Parsons is Director of Pastoral Studies at the Margaret Beaufort Institute in Cambridge. She is the author of Feminism and Christian Ethics (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996).
Carrie Pemberton is Ecumenical Minister of Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, and has recently completed her PhD on the work of African women theologians at the University of Cambridge,
Anne Primavesi is a theologian and writer living in Newbury. She is the author of From Apocalypse to Genesis (Tunbridge Wells, Burns and Oates, 1991) and Sacred Gaia: Holistic Theology and Earth System Science (London, Routledge, 2000).
Kerry Ramsay is a priest on the staff of Great St Mary's, the University Church, Cambridge and a research student at Heythrop College, London.
Melissa Raphael is Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. She is the author of Thealogy and Embodiment: The Post-Patriarchal Reconstruction of Female Sacrality (Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1996), Rudolf Otto and the Concept of Holiness (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997) and Introducing Thealogy: Discourse on the Goddess (Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999).
Angela West is a theologian and writer living in Monmouth. She is the author of Deadly Innocence: Feminism and the Mythology of Sin (London, Cassell, 1995) and of numerous articles.
This book is the outcome of a conference held, with the same title, at Heythrop College, University of London, in May 1999. I am grateful to the speakers for making their papers available for publication here, and for those additional contributors who wrote and offered papers for this book. We are grateful to John McDade SJ, Principal of Heythrop, for his encouragement and welcome to the conference, and for the hospitality of the College and its staff. My thanks to Gemma Simmonds IBVM, Chaplain at the College and Laurence Hemming, for their work in the planning of the conference, and to Gemma especially for her skill and good humour in chairing the day.
The Editor and Publisher would like to thank the following for permission to reproduce material used in this book: Sheffield Academic Press Limited for the article When God Beheld God: Notes Towards a Jewish Feminist Theology of the Holocaust by Melissa Raphael, originally published in Feminist Theology, 21 (May, 1999), pp. 53 ff., of which the chapter included here is an abridged version; T&T Clark for the article Justification by Gender: Daphne Hampson's After Christianity by Angela West, originally published in the Scottish Journal of Theology, 1998, Vol. 51 No. 1, pp. 99 ff., to which a new preface has been added here.
My thanks to Sarah Jane Boss of the Marian Study Centre at the Margaret Beaufort Institute in Cambridge for her help in locating the cover illustration. Thanks are also due to Laurence Hemming and to Tony Hemming for their help in the editing and preparation of the text.