Feminist Theology in America

Deane W. Ferm

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Feminist Theology in America

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Deane W. Ferm

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Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass. 01075

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Feminist theology in America is largely a phenomenon of the 1970s that emerged from the larger parallel drive for women's liberation in the social-economic arena.

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Information: Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , April 1981 , pp. 157 - 178

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^{page 177 note 54} Ibid., p. 16.

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