The British Christian Women's Movement
Subtitle: A Rehabilitation of Eve (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies) (Ashgate New ... in Religion, Theology, and Biblical Studies)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780754606086
Subjects: History of religion; Women's studies; Religion; Religion - Church Life; British Isles; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Institutions & Organizations; Christian Life - General; 20th century; Christian women; Eve (Biblical figure); Feminist theology; Great Britain; History
Description: "This book presents a timely study of a neglected British Christian women's movement. Jenny Daggers charts the inception of the movement in the exciting times of the post-sixties decades, amid new currents generated in the British denominational churches, and the wider current of Women's Liberation. Focusing on Christian women's concern with the position of women in the church, this book identifies a core Christian women's theology which affirms a (rehabilitated) 'new Eve in Christ', and so contrasts with a concurrent paradigm shift taking shape in North American feminist theology. Daggers argues that this divergence is primarily due to the effect of the prolonged Church of England women's ordination debate upon the ethos of the British Christian women's movement." --Book Jacket.