This book is a critical guide to the scholarly exploration of feminist theology. It describes the main features of this modern theological development and examines its major concerns and questions. It presents comprehensive and critical analyses of the essential matters of Christian doctrine written by contributors knowledgeable in feminist theology. The book presents a challenge for future scholarship, since it critically engages with the assumptions of feminist theology, and seeks to open ways for women after feminism to enter into the vocation of theology.

Expertly guides students and teachers around the prominent questions of feminist theology, as well as its bibliographic resources

"...what awaits readers is a fine collection of essays on the shape and themes of Christian feminist thought. ...clearly written and suitable for students of women and religion classes as well as divinity school theology courses that need a feminist infusion."

"A fine collection of essays..."

"This Companion to feminist theology, edited by Parsons (Cambridge Univ.), offers engaging and provocative essays by a range of feminist theologians from around the world, including Rosemary Radford Ruether, Rita Gross, Carol Christ, Kwok Pui-lan, and Mercy Amba Oduyoye.... The 'new readers and non-specialists' that this book seeks as its audience will be well served by the diversity of essays presented here. Recommended."

"I would highly recommend [this text] for a wide range of readers, from the seasoned academic to the interested novice."

Rosemary Radford Ruether, Kwok Pui-Lan, Pamela Sue Anderson, Rita M. Gross, Carol Christ, Bridget Gilfillan-Upton, Susan Frank Parsons, Janet Martin Soskice, Mercy Amba Oduyoye, Nicola Slee, Celia Deane-Drummond, Susan A. Ross, Valerie Karras