It All Began with Miriam… Feminist Theology’s Journey from Liberation to Reconciliation

Abstract

This article combines my journey in Feminist Theology from Liberation to Reconciliation, with a deep appreciation of the late Catherine Halkes, a great influence in my life and a European foremother for Feminist Theology. The emergence of Feminist Theology globally was based on the contextual struggle for justice in society and religion. This evoked new awareness, academic disciplines, culture and spirituality, and in an eccesial dimension inspired the Woman Church movement. Evaluating progress and acknowledging tensions, it is time to take new directions – including visions of liberation that aim for peace with justice, flourishing and ecological wellbeing – contained appropriately by the concept ‘praxis of reconciliation’.