ABSTRACT
This chapter explores feminist theological approaches to eschatology by attending to both critiques and reconstructions of traditional notions of eschatology. Eschatology frames liberation as a distant utopic hope and oppression as an unavoidable present reality. The major problem that feminist theologians have identified with the eschatological process is that it constructs divine power as omnipotence, understood as power which is exerted over creation in a unilateral expression of dominance. There is a common and widely accepted articulation of eschatology as a transcendent and spiritual existence. Carol Christ has dedicated a vast amount of her work to challenging the Christian tradition's preservation and promotion of a doctrine of divine omnipotence. The eschatological reliance on the salvific actions of Jesus is understood by feminist theologians to compound certain dualisms. One way in which feminist theologians have sought to articulate creaturely responsibility is by reconstructing redemption.
