ABSTRACT
This chapter opens with Daphne Hampson’s post-Christian critique of Christian feminism as unable to resolve the problem of Christolatry. The rest of the chapter explores how, to the contrary, feminist ecclesiology and soteriology refused the scandal of Jesus’s masculine particularity and figured Christ in ways that prevented the divinization of his masculinity. The second half of the chapter presents the feminist theological debate over the figure of Mary, showing that the distinction between an idol and an icon can be a shifting, perspectival one: in second wave Christian feminist thought Mary is at once a presiding idol of the feminine and a liberative icon of the divine feminine.
