ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with to intimate, must take its point of departure in a rethinking of the nature of being and an eschatological metaphysics. Helmut Peukert provides with an eschatological reading of Walter Benjamin’s historiography. Remembrance as a hermeneutic theme, though, is perhaps most obviously present in the work of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza. A materialist hermeneutic is absolutely crucial to the feminist enterprise because its praxis base and rootedness in concrete conditions of existence. Feminist hermeneutics must claim this liberation struggle of contemporary women as its ‘locus of revelation’ whilst also reclaiming ‘its foresisters as victims and subjects participating in patriarchal culture’. Feminist theologians, working from a theoretical framework comparable to that of women’s history, have subjected the texts and traditions of theology to analysis from the point of view of gender dynamics. The biblical texts and traditions have of course been seen as central to any such enterprise.
