ABSTRACT
This chapter shows the perspective of the British Christian women's movement of the 1970s and 1980s. It explains that, in these same two decades, in the feminist theology taking shape outside Britain, a paradigm shift occurred in christoalogical revisioning, away from the classical paradigm of salvation in Christ, to a claim that women's struggle for justice in the contemporary world is redemptive. In contrast, British Christian women's theology, with its emphasis upon the rehabilitation of Eve and its commitment to women's rehabilitation within the institutional churches, remained within the classical paradigm of redemption. The chapter begins by demonstrating the absence of Eve, as significant figure, from North American feminist theology. It concludes with a brief discussion of feminist christoalogical revisioning in relation to the christological orthodoxy of the British Christian women's movement. The chapter discerns the paradigm shift from classical Chalcedonian orthodoxy to women's redemptive community.
