After over 8000 words, my dissertation concludes with this personal reflection
Conclusion: A Personal Response I identify myself as a feminist theologian for several reasons. Firstly, I believe that God is good news for women [1] . When God created human beings in his image, he created them to be male and female (Genesis 1: 27), and when He saw them He pronounced them ‘very good’ (Genesis 1: 31). Despite what Church History may have taught, I believe that God delights in both His sons and His daughters. Secondly, I believe that Christianity offers the only hope of a redeemed humanity. Paul’s great statement of equality in Galatians 3:28 points to the re-institution of the equality of relationships present at creation: ‘There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male or female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.’ Thirdly, I believe that the church needs theologians of both genders to see more clearly the injustices of the past, to begin to redress them, and to move forward to a future where the church can truly be a