No Sense of Entitlement: On the Makings of a Feminist Theologian
Ebook
How might we keep alive the interests and concerns of protest theologies and the constructive contributions they make? Feminist, liberation, and postcolonial theologies offer guiding questions for this task: "What is the purpose of theology?" "Whose interests are being served?" "What might be the public effects of this theology?" This book attends to these questions through a collection of publications over the lifetime of one feminist theologian.
Growing up in Australia as these new protest theologies were emerging, Thomson recalls the influences that went into forming her as the theologian she became. She specialized in hermeneutics, looking for stars and compasses that might guide her theology into these new territories, with a willingness to listen to the Christian tradition for its life-giving words, and a willingness to critique it for the ideologies it carried. This double hermeneutic can be seen throughout her work. The chapters in this book are divided thematically into five parts: Theology and Teaching, Public Theology, The Church, The Atonement, and Being Human. Her interests in feminist and liberation theologies inform each theme, so that she might pass on theology better than she received it.
“Heather Thomson is a wise teacher whose work continues to both challenge and encourage the church and the academy. We are in serious need of exactly the sort of considered, careful theology that Thomson offers in this inspiring collection of essays.”
—Jane Foulcher, adjunct senior lecturer in theology, Charles Sturt University
“How can theology speak redemptively in a world often rightly critical of Christianity? Only with ‘no sense of entitlement.’ The title of Heather Thomson’s book refers to her personal journey to become a feminist theologian, but the humility and integrity with which she has learnt to receive, critique, and live her tradition is a model for all theology worthy of the name. An inspiring, generative, and important work.”
—Sarah Bachelard, spiritual director, Benedictus Contemplative Church
“Heather Thomson offers the reader the fruits of her theological work over two decades as a lay feminist theologian teaching, writing, and engaging with key issues for the contemporary believer. There is a breadth and depth to the essays that address key themes for theology and the church-—justice, violence, power, atonement, peace, aging, and vocation. No Sense of Entitlement is an apt title for a refreshing, creative, and persuasive account of the faith of a feminist theologian.”
—Stephen Pickard, adjunct professor of theology, Charles Sturt University
- Title: No Sense of Entitlement: On the Makings of a Feminist Theologian
- Authors: H. J. Thomson, Jeanette Mathews
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2023
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666759082, 9781666759075, 1666759074, 9781666759068, 1666759066, 1666759082
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666759082
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-09-28T20:41:23Z
Heather Thomson is a retired senior lecturer in theology from Charles Sturt University, Australia. She is the author of The Things That Make for Peace (2009).