ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that a consideration of Christianity and democracy enable to understand feminist theology in the United States. It also suggests that American feminist theology offers one of the most fruitful and challenging points of contact between a disestablished Christianity and a democracy seeking a multicultural and non-patriarchal transformation. The chapter argues that feminist theology can be seen as a resource for a new relationship between Christianity and democracy. Feminist theologians turning to issues of physical abuse with women often find themselves involving the long tradition of Christianity of placing dignity as gift from God rather than human surroundings. If Modern theologies of culture found it necessary to invoke God to relativize culture, feminist theologies invoke God to point within culture to the dignity of every human being and to demand and require cultural empowerment of all persons.
