Abstract

Chapter 4 opens by sketching the modern theological anthropology which has argued that freedom is basic to who we are as human beings. Drawing on the many examples from the global women’s movements (of chapter 3), this chapter refashions modern theological anthropology to recognize our constitution as relational individuals always formed by a ‘creativity under constraint’. The constructive theology of this chapter investigates traditions of interpreting Eve and Adam as source for theological anthropology, especially on the nature of sexual difference. The chapter proposes that Christians ought to be fashioned as a ‘movement of mothers’ unfettered by biology, based on a re-reading of the Jesus movement remembered in New Testament writings.

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