Womanist Theology: The Complexity Of The Feminist Movement

This paper explores the complexity of feminist movement, such as Theology and Education in the United State. Womanist theology is a model of Liberation theology that focuses on the diverse and complex lives of African-American women in the United States (Seymour & Miller 63-65). Womanist theologians bring shape to the often quieted, misrepresented, and the misunderstood voice of African-American women in the United States. Mary Elizabeth Mullino Moore states that there is more question than answers (63). One of the complexities of the feminist movement is the theorists that women and men often speak different languages in different ways and with different values. Furthermore, women are not all the same, Womanist theology challenges feminist and black theologians out of their comfort zones by shifting their perspective to questions. A question such as; where is God in the life of African-American women who are bound by surrogate roles in order to survive. Where is the voice of African-American women in a patriarchal society? Womanist theology is an emergent voice of African …show more content…
In this landmark work of emerging African American Womanist theology, Delores William- Women’s Voices is found in the biblical figure of Hagar -- mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God -- a prototype of the struggle of African-American women. It is a picture of African slaves, homeless exile, surrogate mother, and Hagar’s story provides an image of survival and defiance appropriate to black women today. Exploring all the themes inherent in Hagar's story -- poverty and slavery, ethnicity and sexual exploitation, exile and encounters with God. In this instant, Womanist theology -- emerges from this shared experience; specifically, from the interplay of oppressions because of race, sex, and class (Article11-CED106.