ABSTRACT
Feminist theology represents a form of passionate, embodied, lived praxis or Wisdom which testifies to the elusive Holy, the source and destiny of both human and cosmic community, the goal of all our living, loving and striving. It has something creative to offer here in its understanding and practice of Women-Church. A key methodological concern of public theology concerns the nature and the range of public spaces in which theology may enter into conversation with other discourses. A Christalogical rather than a Christological orientation in public theology would suggest an openness not only to many different gendered manifestations of the Christ, but also a tendency to look towards collective, communal signs of Maori Christa's presence. Such a christalogical orientation sits alongside a primary commitment within feminist theology to the denouncing, and overcomes of all forms of patriarchal and kyriarchal oppression that abuse the divine imagine in humanity and in the wider creation.
