ABSTRACT
This chapter explores love and reason as two concepts with deep roots in the fixed identities of gender. Re-visioning love and reason, it considers a failure of gender justice and its implications for the rational argumentation in philosophy of religion. For the sake of argument, it argues that the main target of feminist and other criticisms of twentieth-century philosophy of religion has been the apparently disembodied divinity represented by the God of classical theism. Gendering women as selfless subjects for philosophy of religion may be attractive to Iris Murdoch, but her incarnation of goodness as 'un-selfing' would not immediately pass the test for a feminist re-visioning gender; just the opposite. The account of ethical formation in the context of the spiritual and ritual practices which both shape and are dependent upon bodily, emotional and cognitive dispositions will be informed by Amy Hollywood's significant interventions into feminist philosophy of religion.
