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She references Native American theologian Vine Deloria!! YES!!!

"The interconnection between androcentric language and patriarchal power becomes apparent when we remember that an 1850 and act of Parliament was required to prohibit the common use of 'they' for sex-indeterminable references and to legally insist that 'he' stood for 'she."

Intro and Ch.1 Women-Church the Hermeneutical Center of Feminist Biblical Interpretation - Uses principles of liberation theology but using a hermeneutic of suspicion, because the Biblical texts are written by men and thus androcentric. Scripture cannot be authoritative. Shared experience is authoritative, scripture acts as proto-history.

considering the importance of the closing paragraph (page 115).

"Theology and Church therefore failed to develop communal structures capable of socializing children into the Christian values of coequality in community, commitment, and discipleship, rather than into the cultural values and patriarchal roles of superordination and subordination, of masculinity and femininity." -91

"Salvation here should not be understood just as salvation of the soul, but in the biblical sense of total human salvation and wholeness. It cannot be limited to the liberation from sin, but must be understood to mean also liberation from social and political oppression." (40)