Lisa Isherwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3761059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Isherwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Isherwood |
| SIGNATURE | ISHERWOOD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Winchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Incarnation, Dunamis & Entanglement: Is it Enough to Save the Planet
I will examine a central doctrine of Christianity, incarnation, in the light of Catherine Keller’s theology of entanglement. I will argue that joining these two concepts together moves Christian theology beyond the idea of universal love. It grounds incarnation in the flesh and blood of all creation through the dunamis of which Jesus spoke which he said was the birthright of all. Dunamis draws us out towards others, while the notion of entangleme…
This Is My Body
This article will examine the difficulties involved in female embodiment facing as it does negativity from Church Fathers to philosophers and psychologists. The female body is hardly ever just allowed ‘to be’. I will argue that placed within the frame of radical incarnation and the dismissal of dualistic metaphysics gives the female body the freedom to be and further places those who would deny the freedom in the realm of those who commit blasphe…
Queer Ministers’ Voices from the Global South: "A Burning Fire in My Bones"
Post-Christian Feminisms: A Critical Approach
Patriarchs, Prophets and Other Villains
Christianity: Queer Pasts, Queer Futures
This paper asks whether Christianity has always been queer, is the very nature of it beyond what one might expect from reality? Does the core of Christianity destabilise the categories by which subsequent Christian leaders have created doctrine, developed ethics and controlled the faithful? Is this queer core located in the very notion of incarnation itself, an event that truly changes all we thought we knew about the nature of materiality? The p…
When the Flesh is Word Debt Economy is Not a Thing for Heaven
This paper examines how a radical incarnational starting point would change the way we view the economic order. It highlights the way in which the current system creates extreme poverty and suffering for the many and asks if this can be tolerated by Christians. It also examines the Christian underpinnings of such a system and suggests that other Christian roots would lead to alternate and more inclusive systems
Radical Otherness: Sociological and Theological Approaches
The problem of otherness is central to debates in both the social sciences and theology. To define the other – by colour, gender, politics, nationality, or religion – is to define the self. Othering has been used through history as a justification for boundary-setting, for conflict and for oppression. Radical Otherness presents a broad overview of otherness in both sociology and theology. The book reveals how social theory can illuminate many con…
Theologies of Liberation in Palestine-Israel: Indigenous, Contextual, and Postcolonial Perspectives
Theologies of Liberation in Palestine-Israel: Indigenous, Contextual, and Postcolonial Perspectives
This collection concerns the development of contextualised theologies of liberation in Palestine and as part of the indigenous Palestinian people's struggle for justice and liberation. The work is innovative because of its inclusion of indigenous perspective within its remit and the introduction of new concepts such civil liberation theology. The collection offers other ways to look at biblical discourses and their impact on the ongoing conflict,…
Susannah Cornwall, Theology and Sexuality
Post-Christian Feminisms: A Critical Approach
Contents: Introduction, Lisa Isherwood and Kathleen McPhillips Beyond reason: towards a post-Christian philosophy of religion, Beverley Clack The 'post'-age of belief: wither or whither Christianity?, Pamela Sue Anderson Ecofeminist thea/logies and ethics: a post-Christian movement?, Rosemary Radford Ruether Material elements: the matter of women, the matter of Earth, the matter of God, Anne Elvey Who's been reading MY Bible? Post-structuralist h…
Dreams and Visions – Fulfilment and Re-thinking
Lisa Isherwood, one of the founding editors of Feminist Theology journal reflects on the development of Feminist Theology over the past 20 years and looks to its future. Avenues for the future include development of the area of Atonement Theologies and working to get it disseminated to seminaries and various clerical training institutions. Feminism in Europe, particularly Central or Eastern Europe, also has a place in the next 20 years of Feminis…
An Interview with Ada María Isasi-Díaz
In this exclusive Interview Ada María Isasi-Díaz responds to questions about her work in theology, and the social and political challenges for Mujerista Theology in the first half of the twenty-first century. She discusses some of the biggest shifts in theology since she first engaged with it, and the challenges of growing ‘a Hispanic garden in a foreign land.’ A focus of the interview is Mujerista Theology and how it has developed over the last …
The Fat Jesus: Feminist Explorations in Fleshy Christologies
This paper takes issue with the Slim for Him programmes which suggest that Christianity has no place for the fleshy, indeed that the devil lurks in ample bodies. It investigates the way in which women have suffered a reducing rhetoric which has had its genesis in certain kinds of theology but has exacted a great price on the flesh of women. The paper therefore offers a fleshy Christology as a counter rhetoric in the hope that women may once again…
What's God Got To Do With It
This article considers the question of capitalism and the underlying aspects of Christological construction through comparing the approach of a Radical Orthodoxy theologian and feminist theologians. The author is concerned that feminist scholarship has been hijacked by male theologians who wish to offer a quite conservative agenda while appearing radical. The article shows that we can not change the outcomes if we are not willing to examine and c…
Thinking Theology and Queer Theory
This article examines what it is to think through queer eyes, that is what may queer theory offer to the study of theology. It shows what queer is in this context and challenges the reader to think in other ways. The article examines how queer theory helps to illuminate the radical nature of incarnation at the same time as examining some of the concerns expressed by theorists about the nature of the queer theological project
Incarnation in Times of Terror: Christian Theology and the Challenge of September 11th
The author argues that Christian theology needs to examine itself in the light of the events surrounding September 11th. Not only has some Christian theology lent itself to the creation of imperialistic mindsets that could be argued to be the root cause of the violence before and after September 11th but it now seems to sit on the fence. The author suggests that this, like so many in Christian theology, is ultimately a christological question and…
Learning to be a woman: Feminist theological reflections on sex education in church schools
This article suggests that sex education in Church schools should address the personal as political through proclaiming the liberating potential of incarnational theology. The author suggests that Christian sex educators should be alert to the construction and commodification of desire and its attendant capitalist implications. While resisting this grand narrative they should encourage the young to embrace their own human/divine natures and dance…
The Embodiment of Feminist Liberation Theology: The Spiralling of Incarnation
Marriage: Haven or Hell? Twin Souls and Broken Bones
This article demonstrates the levels of domestic abuse in the UK and USA. The author argues that it is a mistake to see this as a purely private and therefore pastoral matter but it is rather a public and systematic problem and such is the stuff of public theological and ethical debate. The article demonstrates some ways in which Christian theology has been used to devalue women and thus create a climate in which abuse and death are both possible…
Indecent Theology: What F-ing Difference Does It Make
This article is a response by a body theologian to Indecent Theology written by Marcella Althaus-Reid. The author takes Eve Ensler as a companion in a journey which attempts to spit out phallocentric meaning and engage with wicked and wordy cunning linguists as they move towards more honest telling-theology from the body.
Asphodel Long
The Tree, the Cross and Global Capitalism
Has Christianity, a religion with incarnation at its heart, devalued the flesh through an over-emphasis on the cross? In this article Lisa Isherwood's response is an overwhelming 'yes'. Isherwood argues that the devaluation of the flesh has hindered Christianity's efforts to address the genocidal realities of global capitalism. She suggests that a return to the tree found in Eden and sensuously engaged with by our foremother Eve, will provide a s…
Interview: Rosemary Radford Ruether with Lisa Isherwood
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A Cry from the Depths
Introducing Feminist Theology
An Introduction to Feminist Theology and the Case for its Study in an Academic Setting
The Ethic of Joy
I Jumped over the Moon: An Interview with Mary Daly and Catherine the Cow
An A-Z of Feminist Theology
This exciting volume brings together a wide range of perspectives on one of the most important and challenging areas of modern theology. There are entries on all the major themes of Christian feminist theology, including models of God and of the Church, ethics and spirituality, sexuality and liberation. Many of the entries push their respective discussions beyond the rigid boundaries of previous theological discourse. Together they present the fa…
Body Politics: A Theological Issue
Interview: Rosemary Radford Ruether with Lisa Isherwood
Interview: Mary E. Hunt with Lisa Isherwood
The Tree, the Cross and Global Capitalism
Has Christianity, a religion with incarnation at its heart, devalued the flesh through an over-emphasis on the cross? In this article Lisa Isherwood's response is an overwhelming 'yes'. Isherwood argues that the devaluation of the flesh has hindered Christianity's efforts to address the genocidal realities of global capitalism. She suggests that a return to the tree found in Eden and sensuously engaged with by our foremother Eve, will provide a s…
Asphodel Long
Marriage: Haven or Hell? Twin Souls and Broken Bones
This article demonstrates the levels of domestic abuse in the UK and USA. The author argues that it is a mistake to see this as a purely private and therefore pastoral matter but it is rather a public and systematic problem and such is the stuff of public theological and ethical debate. The article demonstrates some ways in which Christian theology has been used to devalue women and thus create a climate in which abuse and death are both possible…
Indecent Theology: What F-ing Difference Does It Make
This article is a response by a body theologian to Indecent Theology written by Marcella Althaus-Reid. The author takes Eve Ensler as a companion in a journey which attempts to spit out phallocentric meaning and engage with wicked and wordy cunning linguists as they move towards more honest telling-theology from the body.
Learning to be a woman: Feminist theological reflections on sex education in church schools
This article suggests that sex education in Church schools should address the personal as political through proclaiming the liberating potential of incarnational theology. The author suggests that Christian sex educators should be alert to the construction and commodification of desire and its attendant capitalist implications. While resisting this grand narrative they should encourage the young to embrace their own human/divine natures and dance…
The Embodiment of Feminist Liberation Theology: The Spiralling of Incarnation
Incarnation in Times of Terror: Christian Theology and the Challenge of September 11th
The author argues that Christian theology needs to examine itself in the light of the events surrounding September 11th. Not only has some Christian theology lent itself to the creation of imperialistic mindsets that could be argued to be the root cause of the violence before and after September 11th but it now seems to sit on the fence. The author suggests that this, like so many in Christian theology, is ultimately a christological question and…
What's God Got To Do With It
This article considers the question of capitalism and the underlying aspects of Christological construction through comparing the approach of a Radical Orthodoxy theologian and feminist theologians. The author is concerned that feminist scholarship has been hijacked by male theologians who wish to offer a quite conservative agenda while appearing radical. The article shows that we can not change the outcomes if we are not willing to examine and c…
Thinking Theology and Queer Theory
This article examines what it is to think through queer eyes, that is what may queer theory offer to the study of theology. It shows what queer is in this context and challenges the reader to think in other ways. The article examines how queer theory helps to illuminate the radical nature of incarnation at the same time as examining some of the concerns expressed by theorists about the nature of the queer theological project
The Fat Jesus: Feminist Explorations in Fleshy Christologies
This paper takes issue with the Slim for Him programmes which suggest that Christianity has no place for the fleshy, indeed that the devil lurks in ample bodies. It investigates the way in which women have suffered a reducing rhetoric which has had its genesis in certain kinds of theology but has exacted a great price on the flesh of women. The paper therefore offers a fleshy Christology as a counter rhetoric in the hope that women may once again…
An Interview with Ada María Isasi-Díaz
In this exclusive Interview Ada María Isasi-Díaz responds to questions about her work in theology, and the social and political challenges for Mujerista Theology in the first half of the twenty-first century. She discusses some of the biggest shifts in theology since she first engaged with it, and the challenges of growing ‘a Hispanic garden in a foreign land.’ A focus of the interview is Mujerista Theology and how it has developed over the last …
Dreams and Visions – Fulfilment and Re-thinking
Lisa Isherwood, one of the founding editors of Feminist Theology journal reflects on the development of Feminist Theology over the past 20 years and looks to its future. Avenues for the future include development of the area of Atonement Theologies and working to get it disseminated to seminaries and various clerical training institutions. Feminism in Europe, particularly Central or Eastern Europe, also has a place in the next 20 years of Feminis…
Post-Christian Feminisms: A Critical Approach
Contents: Introduction, Lisa Isherwood and Kathleen McPhillips Beyond reason: towards a post-Christian philosophy of religion, Beverley Clack The 'post'-age of belief: wither or whither Christianity?, Pamela Sue Anderson Ecofeminist thea/logies and ethics: a post-Christian movement?, Rosemary Radford Ruether Material elements: the matter of women, the matter of Earth, the matter of God, Anne Elvey Who's been reading MY Bible? Post-structuralist h…
Radical Otherness: Sociological and Theological Approaches
The problem of otherness is central to debates in both the social sciences and theology. To define the other – by colour, gender, politics, nationality, or religion – is to define the self. Othering has been used through history as a justification for boundary-setting, for conflict and for oppression. Radical Otherness presents a broad overview of otherness in both sociology and theology. The book reveals how social theory can illuminate many con…
Theologies of Liberation in Palestine-Israel: Indigenous, Contextual, and Postcolonial Perspectives
Theologies of Liberation in Palestine-Israel: Indigenous, Contextual, and Postcolonial Perspectives
This collection concerns the development of contextualised theologies of liberation in Palestine and as part of the indigenous Palestinian people's struggle for justice and liberation. The work is innovative because of its inclusion of indigenous perspective within its remit and the introduction of new concepts such civil liberation theology. The collection offers other ways to look at biblical discourses and their impact on the ongoing conflict,…
Philosophy (23 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Theology (21 works) · Political science (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Art (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Incarnation (7 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (7 works)