Feminist Theology

            Feminist theology has had its primary development in the USA.  Much of Feminist Theological thought has been associated with the period after1968.  Feminist theology takes as its first agenda the criticism of the masculinist bias of Christian theology.  This bias has excluded women both from ordained ministry and from higher theological education throughout much of the church history.  Feminists therefore see Christian theology as having been done in exclusion of women’s experience.  The second agenda of feminist theology aims at the discovery of alternative historical traditions supportive of the personhood of woman and her inclusion in leadership roles in church and society.  Many feminist theologians have expressed discomfort with the ‘maleness’ of Jesus, since maleness is often used to justify oppression.  Colored women around the world doing Christology is called Femenist/Womanist Christology.