What is Feminist Theology?
To clarify on what theology is, theology that can be split up into two Greek words namely theos and logos – can be literally translated as study of God . God however cannot be studied like an object under a microscope. Theology then is a human endeavor to articulate ones faith in God, in a coherent way, reflecting critically on human relationships in a given socio-political-economic-cultural situation and very much in the light of the ones experiences of understanding and interpretation of Scriptures. A feminist perspective in theology (or Feminist theology) uses womens experiences as the starting point to study how and whether human beings valued the female in a given context, or whether a female was ignored, discriminated, devalued and denied a place simply for the reason of being a female. A womanist perspective takes the cue from the experiences of the Afro-American women who underlined the link between patriarchy, class and race in addition to gender in the valuing of human beings
