Tragedy, Theology, and Feminism in the Time After Time

This article is a theological response to the cases for and against tragedy by George Steiner, Terry Eagleton, and Carol Gilligan. It first articulates the peculiar values of tragedy as a genre and shows why a tragic sensibility would re-emerge in this post-modern moment. In response to Steiner and Eagleton, it argues that Western Christian theology has suppressed the tragic. In response to Gilligan, the article takes feminists to task for continuing this suppression of the tragic, while commending their apt critiques of Western thought for its association of women with evil.