Contemporary Feminist Theologies

Kerrie Handasyde is Senior Lecturer in Church History at Pilgrim Theological College and Adjunct Lecturer at Stirling Theological College, University of Divinity.Cathryn McKinney is Professional Supervision Program Coordinator at the University of Divinity, and an Honorary Postdoctoral Associate and Associate Lecturer at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, and chaplain at a women’s prison.Rebekah Pryor is an artist, curator and early career researcher at the University of Melbourne.

• Introduction: To Speak, To Say Anything At All-Rebekah Pryor, Cathryn McKinney and Kerrie Handasyde; Part I Power: Dis/locations and Reclamations; 1 Speaking Up! Speaking Out! Naming the Silences: Women, Power, Authority and Love in the Pacific-Seforosa Carroll; 2 Witnessing to What Remains, or The Power of Persisting: Power, Authority, and Love in the Interim Spaces-Nicola Slee; 3 From Footballs to Matildas? Gender Diverse People and Theological Game Change-Josephine Inkpin; 4 Reading and Process: Rethinking Power-Brian Macallan; 5 The Problem with Powerlessness: Attending to Power and Authority in Matthew’s Wisdom Christology-Sally Douglas; Part II Authority: Subversions and Contestations; 6 "How could it be otherwise?" Sacramental Imagination and Political Rites-Katharine Massam; 7 Mother, Preacher, Press: Women Ministers and the Negotiation of Authority, 1910–1933-Kerrie Handasyde 8 Reforming Women in England and Scotland: Claiming Authority to Speak of God-Ann Loades; 9 Against and Without Authority: Writing Feminist Theology After the End of History-Janice McRandal; Part III Love: Embodiment and Practice; 10 Roadsides: Toward an Ecological Feminist Theology of Cross-Species Compassion-Anne Elvey; 11 Covenantal Relationships and Queer Bodies-Anika Jensen and Katecia Taylor with Stephen Burns; 12 Re-visioning (the) Love/Command: Law, Authority, and the Logic of Love in the Philosophy of Pamela Sue Anderson and Paul’s Letter to the Galatians-Sean Winter; 13 Writing the Image to Forgiveness and Love-Helena Kadmos; 14 Thinking, Dancing: Exploring the Gaps Between Ecstasy and Distress-Rebekah Pryor; 15 Speaking of Being Heard: Voice and Purpose in Prison-Cathryn McKinney

This deeply interconnected, collection of essays offers fresh perspectives on the challenges of comprehending the relations between power and agency, authority and love. Feminist theology has always rejected binary separations between these spheres and stresses the painful but necessary task of accommodating their entanglement in human and divine relations. What the authors in this work achieve are vivid, culturally located and accountable representations of loving as ‘power transformed’ and ‘transforming power’.Heather Walton, Professor of Theology and Creative Practice, University of Glasgow