Escape from Paradise : Evil and Tragedy in Feminist Theology Book

	Preface
1	A Mermaid in the Ship's Cabin	1
	Tragic Consciousness as a Heuristic Foundation for Theology
2	The One and the Other	17
	The Career of Evil in Androcentric Theology
	Protestant Moral Dualism and Secular Rationalism	20
	From Liberalism to Liberation	24
	Postmodern Theology and the Tragic	34
	After the Dream of Perfection	35
3	Escape from Paradise	37
	Responses to Evil in Religious Feminism
	In Defense of the Transcendent God	43
	In Defense of the Immanent Good	48
	In Defense of Justice	55
	Tragic Sensibilities in Religious Feminism	60
	To Untangle the Suffering of Women	65
4	Lilith and Eve	70
	Sisters in Struggle
	Evil as a Religious Problem: To Leave or Reclaim Christianity	73
	Evil as a Theo(a)logical Problem: Immanence or Transcendence	77
	Ruether: Making Sense of Patriarchy	82
5	Renaturing a Fallen World	87
	The Theology of Rosemary Radford Ruether
	Sin as Injustice	90
	Nature and Fallenness	96
	Transcendence and Theological Truth	101
	Assessment: The God/ess and the Dance	108
6	A Desiring Nature	114
	The Theological Quest of Carol P. Christ
	Is the Rainbow Enough? Christ's Theory of Women's Spiritual Quest	116
	Journey to the Goddess: Eros as Knowledge and Ethic	125
	Theology as Wonder: An Assessment	134
7	A World of Color	137
	The Promise of a Tragic Heuristic
	Beloved	139
	Bastard Out of Carolina	145
	Love Medicine	152
	Housekeeping	159
	Making the World Go On	166
	Notes	170
	Index	208