ABSTRACT
The content of Christian believing issues in a shape of living which vanes according to whatever doctrinal motif achieves dominance. By retaining the summons to authenticity and responsibility of existentialist thought but relocating it in a framework of natural theology, Macquarrie mediates between the act of grace and the continuity of being. Feminist theology shares with liberation theology a number of underlying assumptions and commitments, arising from its distinguishing characteristic, the theological notion of the 'option for the poor'. Within the context of the rejection of dualism, process theology represents a shift of concern away from a static understanding of being and issues of essence/substance to a dynamic notion of becoming and the idea of God's participation in the temporal process. Amongst feminist theologians, this commitment to transforming agency finds most vibrant expression in Solle, for example in the notion of 'partisanship for life'.
