Talk:Christian feminism

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[edit] Renaming

I redirected Feminist Christianity because in all my research on the subject, I have never heard the term "Feminist Christianity." Probably because it implies that there are multiple Christianities, which doens't make any sense.

On the contrary, most academics no longer speak of "Christianity," but prefer the "Christian tradition" for precisely this reason-- that there are multiple Christianities, from different eras and different geographical expressions of Christianity.

[edit] NPOV

This article has no perspective. Christians don't tend to interpret verses as good as bad. Christian feminists (at least the limited amoung I have seen) take a reading (like Islamic feminists) of the whole text and don't isolate verses and argue that the verses must be understood in context. There are not problematic verses. Some people find verses to be problematic and they cite them... skeptics annotated Bible or whatnot... but, you have to source who finds them to be problematic because there is no inherent problem in any verse because we cannot assume that any of these things are inherently bad. gren グレン 05:01, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I myself am ugly and I introduced the wording "problematic." "Problematic" passages that appear to contradict one's view. The verses are not bad in the general sense you mean, only bad in that they support non-feminists views. Conversley, the supportive passages would be problematic to someone opposing feminist views. Here are two quotes by other Christian feminists writing for a feminist org which are quite common, in my experience:

I began to dig into the problematic texts from Genesis 3:16 to 1 Timothy 2:11-15 [1]

Nevertheless, instead of trying to reconcile these few problematic passages [1 Timothy 2:11-12 and 1 Corinthians 14:34-36] with the plain teaching of the rest of the Bible[2]

Since feminists would unlikely be biased against ourselves, I'm removing the NPOV tag. --Ephilei 20:47, 20 July 2006 (UTC)