ABSTRACT
To think about otherness, or relations with the other, at the interface between theology, philosophy and feminist theory may have the incendiary effect Luce Irigaray suggests in the above quote. By the illumination of such a blaze it might be possible to look at the issues in a different light, particularly when questions about sexual difference intersect with questions concerning divine alterity. There is no doubt about the centrality of feminist thinking to Irigaray’s work. At the beginning of her 1984 book The Ethics of Sexual Difference,2 she states her belief that sexual difference is
one of the major philosophical issues, if not the issue, of our age. According to Heidegger, each age has one issue to think through… sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our ‘salvation’, if we thought it through.
