As we approach the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century Western theology is experiencing something of a conservative backlash. In the Roman Catholic Church the contextual and engaging vision of Vatican II is becoming harder to sustain. As one of the practical critical theologies that blossomed in the decades after Vatican II, feminist theological perspectives are again striving to have their voices heard in a theological conversation that is resisting the voices of diversity and returning to a more homogenous understanding and interpretation of what it means to be 'Church.'...
As we approach the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century Western theology is experiencing something of a conservative backlash. In the R...