Donald Bloesch has paid feminist theologians the compliment, in this book, of taking them seriously. That is not at all a tribute to be scoffed at these days, for there are many theologians and biblical scholars in the church who pay little attention to such feminists, and that is a slight that may have serious consequences for the life of the church in the United States. There have appeared, in the past ten years, numerous works by feminist theologians, which are not only reflections of
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