On the voices, contexts and tasks of theology : experiments in Quaker and feminist thought / Rachel Muers.
| Author/creator | Muers, Rachel author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | London : New York : Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2026. |
| Description | x, 178 pages ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part 1: Raising Voices. Overview: Speaking Experimentally -- Let Us Hear Your Voice: Encouragement to New Theologians -- Thinking With Julian of Norwich About Doing Theology -- Part 2: Finding Voices in Quaker Tradition. Speaking, Justified -- The Seed and the Day of Small Things: Voice and Power -- Voice and the Body: John Woolman's Silence -- Notes on Nonconformist Public Theology -- Part 3: Finding Voices in Theological Systems. A Systematics Of One's Own: Reflections on a Search for Foremothers in Systematic Theology -- Where do Women's Voices Come From? -- On the Love Lives of Great Theologians -- Hearing Shibboleth: Borders and Boundaries in Theology -- Part 4: Voices in Place. Theology in the Fabric of the Secular University (Leeds) -- Divinity Among 'The Humanities': 'Idle Decoration' or Water of Life? -- 'I Was Glad'. |
| Abstract | "The book begins with the question 'how does someone speak of God?', understood not as a question about the criteria or authorised sources for theology, but as a question of what is going on when theology is done. How is it possible to speak as this particular historical embodied subject about God? Muers investigates voice through engagement with historical and contemporary theologians, particularly but not only with women who are speaking from relatively marginalised positions and contending with the lack of societal authorisation for their theological work. Recognising that the question of 'voice' is often equated in the contemporary context with the representation of identities and with how spaces and institutions can facilitate that representation, the narrative considers more directly how questions of identity and context – particularly in relation to gender – shape the construction and representation of systematic theology, and of theological tradition. Muers examines the vocation of theology, particularly in the contemporary Western academy and alongside other 'humanities' subjects, and a concluding chapter sets out a vision for ecumenical theological work. The book draws extensively on the author's own Quaker tradition and on her experience of teaching and mentoring theologians"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-172) and indexes. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9780567721280 |
| ISBN | 9780567721259 |
| ISBN | 0567721256 |
| ISBN | ePub ebook |
| ISBN | PDF ebook |
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