Research Catalog

Title

Escape from paradise : evil and tragedy in feminist theology / Kathleen M. Sands.

Author

Sands, Kathleen M., 1954-

Publication

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©1994.

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Details

Description

xii, 212 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Kathleen Sands here mounts a trenchant and original critique of Christian theology's account of evil and tragedy. Contemporary experience is, she says, "riddled through and through with tragedy and tragic conflict." Yet Christian theology still lives in a "paradise," denying the irreplaceable loss and irresolvable conflict that are central and undeniable features of our time." "With a sure and sharp grasp of both the Christian tradition and the postmodern situation, Sands faults mainstream and feminist theologies for failing to take evil seriously, for failing to recognize the inescapably tragic character of life. Moreover, she finds this true not only of reform or revisionist feminist theologies (such as Rosemary Ruether's) but also of more radical, Goddess thealogies (such as Carol Christ's). She urges instead entry into the actual world as seen in women's religious experience. And she constructs evocative proposals for how a sensitivity to the tragic could enhance the power and credibility of feminist theology. "The wound of tragedy," she says, "carries clues about the openings and vulnerabilities that define our moral lives.""--Jacket.

Subject

• Ruether, Rosemary Radford
• Christ, Carol P
• Ruether, Rosemary Radford
• Feminist theology
• Good and evil
• Tragic, The
• Feminist theology > Controversial literature
• Good and evil > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Good and evil > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Feminist theology
• Good and evil
• Tragic, The
• Feministische Theologie
• Het Kwaad
• Feministische theologie

Genre/Form

Controversial literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-207) and index.

Contents

1. A mermaid in the ship's cabin : tragic consciousness as a heuristic foundation for theology -- 2. The one and the other : the career of evil in androcentric theology -- 3. Escape from paradise : responses to evil in religious feminism -- 4. Lilith and Eve : sisters in struggle -- 5. Renaturing a fallen world : the theology of Rosemary Radford Ruether -- 6. A desiring nature : the thealogical quest of Carol P. Christ -- 7. A world of color : the promise of a tragic heuristic.

ISBN

• 0800626362
• 9780800626365

LCCN

94009748

OCLC

• ocm30070256
• 30070256
• SCSB-2054249

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library