ABSTRACT
The Christian community uses to speak about God is so incredibly vast, wide ranging and ingrained that revising the trinitarian formula can only ever constitute part of the solution. It is also perfectly possible to speak God in one way whilst simultaneously thinking God in another. The doctrine of the Trinity is one of the most defining features of the Christian faith. This doctrine provides the grammar of Christian faith, a means of expression in relation to other areas of belief and, as such, is of prime importance to the identity of the Christian community. Womanist theology, for example, emerges as a challenge to the white, Western, affluent, middle-class nature of feminist theology, exposing its presumption to speak for all women and its disregard for racial and class difference. Although feminist theologians have tried to rectify this through the use of more inclusive language, Hampson is clear that such pursuits are, in the end, fruitless.
