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Meeting God on the Cross - Christ, the Cross, and the Feminist Critique (Hardcover)
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Meeting God on the Cross - Christ, the Cross, and the Feminist Critique (Hardcover)
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The past thirty years have seen the emergence of a broad-ranging
feminist theological critique of Christology. Speaking out of a
range of Christian traditions, feminist theologians have exposed
the androcentric character of classical Christology, drawing
attention to the fact that women's voices in Scripture and in the
history of theology have often gone and continue to go unheard. The
theological consequences have been grave: Christ's liberating
message of the full humanity of both women and men has been
compromised by the patriarchal bias of its interpreters. Feminists
have also argued that of all Christian doctrines Christology has
been most often turned against women. Christological arguments have
been used to reinforce an exclusively male image of God, and thus
to legitimate men's superiority over women. Further, the image of
Christ on the cross has contributed to women's acceptance of abuses
of power, as it has often been interpreted as a model of passive
submission to unjust suffering. Some feminists have argued for the
total rejection of the doctrine of the cross. Others have concluded
that Christianity and feminism are incompatible.
In this book, Arnfriour Guomundsdottir provides a lucid survey and
analysis of the full range of such criticisms, as well as her own
explicitly feminist retrieval and reconstruction of a theology of
the cross. She argues that there is a redemptive message hidden in
the cross of Christ that is valuable to women today. Despite its
potential for abuse and its well-documented history of misuse
against women, a theology of the cross can also affirm Jesus as a
divine co-sufferer who brings good news to all who are poor and
oppressed. Such a theology, Guomundsdottir contends, offers women
meaning and strength from a God who takes human form and enters
redemptively into their suffering."
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