In this book Heather Walton explores the significance of women poststructuralist theorists for feminist reading practices in theology. She interrogates the crucial role that literature has played in the development of feminist theology and breaks new ground in linking the study of literary texts and theory to creative writing. This raises important epistemological questions concerning the use of the imagination in theological thinking and introduces 'reflexive theology' as a discipline and practice.
Table Of Contents
Part 1

1.What Everyone Was Reading

2. Reading Gaols and Women’s Prisons

3. Literature and Theology: Sex in the Relationship

4. Fireflies and the Art Candle

5. ‘They will faint when we show them our texts’

6. An article on Midrash, preaching and performing texts in feminist perspective

Part 2

1. Michelle Roberts and the Voices of the Lost

2. Extreme Faith

3. Sex in the War

4. Cyborg

5. ‘A World Built on Water: Marilynne Robertson and the beauty of the sacred’.