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Wealth, power and gender : = Theologies of liberation in the First and Third World.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Wealth, power and gender :/
其他題名:	Theologies of liberation in the First and Third World.
作者:	Stringer, Margaret.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (383 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07, Section: C.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International79-07C.
標題:	Philosophy of religion. -
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ISBN:	9780355578096

Wealth, power and gender : = Theologies of liberation in the First and Third World.
Stringer, Margaret.

Wealth, power and gender :Theologies of liberation in the First and Third World. - 1 online resource (383 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 79-07, Section: C.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Manchester (United Kingdom), 1999.

Includes bibliographical references

It is my thesis that an analysis of the oppressive ways in which wealth, power and gender operate in Christian theological discourse justifies the constructing of an alternative feminist symbolic of divinity founded in ethics. I develop this thesis by employing a hermeneutic strategy of difference as a critical analytical tool. I conduct an introductory analysis of the work of two representative First World theologians from Britain, R. Harries and P. Sedgwick. From this examination I identify that their traditional Western mode of liberal theological reasoning is inadequate to confront critically the injustices of systemic poverty, racism and sexism. My main argument is that liberation theological perspectives have begun to show how Eurocentric theological discourse and practice promotes a knowledge of God that colludes with oppressive political, socio-economic, cultural and gendered strategies and structures of power, whereas liberation discourse and practice has the possibility of releasing and sustaining faith as a creative ethical strategy that promotes justice signifying divinity. I therefore examine in detail the theologies of two representative Latin American liberation theologians, G. Gutierrez and J. Sobrino SJ, the Christian feminist liberation theology of R. R. Reuther and the feminist liberation theology of S. Welch drawing upon the work of M. Foucault. I identify that, while Gutierrez and Sobrino find Marx helpful for constructing a liberation discourse on faith that confronts the systemic injustice of a liberal political and capitalist socio-economic system and show how Eurocentric theologies collude with this systemic oppression, their liberation discourse is inadequate to confront systemic racism and sexism in the multicultural contexts of both the First and Third World. This is because they prioritise the traditional Western idea of revelation itself as foundational to faith experience and the construction of theological knowledge of the divine. Similarly, I identify that while the Christian feminist liberation theology of Ruether is able to confront oppressive patriarchal strategies of power operating in the construction of systemic impoverishment, racism and sexism in the multicultural contexts of both the First and Third World, her feminist reenvisioning of divinity is restricted and ultimately compromised ethically because she also prioritises the Western idea of revelation itself. I identify that Welch, in contrast to the other liberation theologians in this enquiry, problematises as unethical constructs the traditional religious concepts of faith, theology, divinity and the understanding of moral behaviour that are based on the Western philosophical tradition and on die idea of Christian revelation. Instead, she promotes the formulation of a new ethical feminist liberation framework for expressing the religious. Welch thereby opens up a new theoretical space for constructing ethicd feminist theological discourses, practices and a symbolic of divinity that prioritises difference as integral to the divine. While I identify that Welch's adherence to a disembodied power of reason leads her into methodological problems, her feminist theological discourse presents a challenge to Christian theologians to question the ethics of the idea of revelation itself as foundational to religious faith, theological expression and moral practice.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355578096Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Philosophy of religion.
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