Routledge Revivals: The British Christian Women's Movement (2002)

The British Christian Womens Movement charts the British Christian womens movement and its inception in the post-sixties decades, amid new currents generated in the British denominational churches, and the wider current of Womens Liberation. Focusing on Christian womens concern with the position of women in the church, this book identifies core Christian womens theology which affirms a (rehabilitated) new Eve in Christ, and contrasts with a paradigm shift taking shape in North American feminist theology. It argues that this divergence is primarily because of the effect of prolonged Church of England womens ordination debates upon the ethos of the British Christian womens movement.