ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the emergence of distinctive theological writings from a British Christian women's movement, which was active during the 1970'sand 1980's, and which is documented in the Christian Women's Information and Resources (CWIRES) archive. During the pre-CWIRES years, this concern with the position of women grew within four distinct currents in the churches: post-Vatican II Catholic renewal; the World Council of Churches, Community of Women and Men in the Church programme; Catholic and Anglican women's ordination debates; and radical Christianity. The Anglican campaign for the ordination of women, which remained active throughout the CWIRES period, acted as a focus around which the various component groups cohered as a single movement. Janet Morley's liturgical writing and collections of 'Christian women's' liturgies demonstrate the infusion of 'second-wave' feminist consciousness with 'Christian women's' rehabilitation of Eve in institutional churches and in orthodox theology.
