ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses primarily on Carter Heyward awareness of injustice, particularly gender based injustice, and on the values and categories of feminisms that she employs to challenge such injustices. Her approach is one which brings to bear the critiques and values of feminisms on Christian theology both in the development and clarification of a justice seeking theology. Heyward's theological and educational backgrounds are very revealing in the attempt to identify and critically assess the strategies that she has developed and applied in her theological encountering of Christianity and feminisms. Heyward became active in campaigning for admission to the ordained priesthood and the direct action of those hoping for ordination culminated in 1974 with their ordination as Episcopal Priests in 1974 in North Philadelphia's Church of the Advocate. In recognition of the radical and challenging implications of this Heyward has referred to it as an "unauthorized ordination of eleven women priests".
