ABSTRACT
The Christian tradition has said much about justice. Many feminists, remaining in the Christian churches, explain their commitment to institutions which are patriarchal in their organization and often misogynistic in their teaching, by their belief in a thirsting after the righteousness of God's rule as being central to the Christian gospel. The feminist vision of Christianity is an empowerment of believers as doers of justice. In consequence, feminists feel alienated from those parts of the Christian tradition which seem either indifferent to the concrete needs of people for justice in their daily lives or happily acquiescent in systems of social injustice. This sense of alienation is heightened by the fact that feminists, like Marxists, are aware that injustice is not only a maldistribution of material goods and the abandonment of human beings to horrible physical wants, but also a crippling of the spirit and the production of 'false consciousness'.
