Abstract
Who are we as theological educators? How do we participate in and train for a Church of the poor? This is the question I have been asked to address at this consultation. Is it impossible for me, as a feminist, to separate this question from my context as a woman theological educator? I am very aware that, as a woman, I belong to that half of the human race which has been traditionally excluded from ordination, from preaching, from teaching, in the sense of being a part of the Church’s public teaching ministry, and from the theological education that has prepared men for these roles. This is not a question of being a U.S. American, but a patriarchal culture that shaped all of Christianity.