ABSTRACT
A defining feature of the development and critical understanding of feminist informed Christian theologies since their emergence in the late 1960s and early 1970s has been a persistent focus on the question of the compatibility of Christianity and feminisms. Feminist analysis has consistently viewed religion, and in particular, Christianity with suspicion and sometimes outright hostility. Feminist critique has often focused on the claim that stereotypical and derogatory understandings of women shape and determine a variety of traditional religious perspectives and as such these perspectives and associated religious traditions legitimise views of women that are demeaning, limiting and ultimately, damaging. Mary Daly unequivocally, and with extensive reasoning, rejects the possibility that Christianity can be reformed by feminist values and critique to the extent that it will support, accommodate and share liberationist feminist aspirations with all of their implications.
