The Bonds of Freedom

"Feminist theologians have commonly identified Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian realism as a prime example of a patriarchal theological ethic that promotes domination. In this constructive study, however, Rebekah Miles claims that Niebuhr's thought can usefully be appropriated and revised in service of a new feminist ethic - a feminist Christian realism. Miles offers this new ethic as an answer to the loss of moral grounding and critical judgment within some North American feminist theologies.". "Miles contends that an increasingly radical feminist emphasis on divine immanence and human bounde...