from Part III - Church and World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 September 2023
This chapter begins with an essay of David Tracy’s from 1991 that celebrates how feminist thinkers insist on contextualising all thought and experience while still pressing universal demands for justice. Many feminist theologians then add further religious layers of material contextualisation and theocentric universalisation, rendering their work, in Tracy’s eyes, ‘the unexampled challenge’ for all theology. Bingemer’s own Roman Catholic feminism is related to liberation theology and its ‘option for the poor’ in a Latin American continent where women often find themselves ‘doubly poor’. Tracy’s favoured selection of European women mystics– from Angela of Foligno to Madame Jeanne de Guyon– are explored as practising and contemplating, in Tracy’s expression, a divine–human ‘excessive love’, for God and often also the poor. Finally, the essay draws Dorothy Day and Simone Weil– two remarkable twentieth-century women valued by Tracy and yet placed by many outside the canons of feminism– to the side of more recent theological feminism, for the hope for a church and a future in which divine–human love and desire for justice challenges patriarchy, sexism, and all oppressions of the poor.
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