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Toward A Metaphysic of Community

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

Frank G. Kirkpatrick
Affiliation:
Department of Religion, Trinity College, Hartford CT 06106, USA

Extract

At the heart of both feminist and Christian-Marxist liberation theology is a concern for community or personal relationship. ‘In the beginning is the relation’, claims Isabel Carter Heyward in her book The Redemption of God: A Theology of Mutual Relation. God and humanity, she argues, need to be understood in radically new categories, many of which arise out of women's experience of relation, as ‘relational and co-operative, rather than as monistic (synonymous) or dualistic (antithetical) … The experience of relation is fundamental and constitutive of human being.’

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1985

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