You Don't Look Like a Baptist Minister: An Autoethnographic Retrieval of 'Women's Experience' as an Analytic Category for Feminist Theology
This article constructs and deploys a set of autoethnographic narratives from the author's experience as a Baptist minister to critically retrieve the category of 'women's experience' for feminist theological construction. Autoethnography, as a response to the crisis of represent...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2017]
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Feminist theology
Year: 2017, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 182-197 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church RB Church office; congregation |
| Further subjects: | B
women's experience
B Humanities B Experience B crisis of representation B transformative judgment B autoethnography B Ecclesiology B Feminists B transformative B Judgment B transformative grace |
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| Summary: | This article constructs and deploys a set of autoethnographic narratives from the author's experience as a Baptist minister to critically retrieve the category of 'women's experience' for feminist theological construction. Autoethnography, as a response to the crisis of representation in the Humanities, uses personal narratives of the self to reveal, critique and transform wider cultural trends. It therefore provides helpful tools for analysing, critiquing and transforming theological thought and practice. Following the article's methodological sections, the constructive sections use the crafted autoethnographies to re-frame Rowan Williams's vision for how church and world co-constitute each other towards God's just ends. Whereas Williams argues that this co-constitution occurs through processes of interactive transformative judgment, the feminist theological understanding argued for here founds the process instead on interactive, transformative grace. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5189 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Feminist theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0966735016673261 |