Feminist Interpretation of the Church

Course on Letty Russell's Book, "The Church in the Round"

The course has nine lessons. Each suggests exercises that help you integrate the main principle into your own thinking.

If you register for the course and complete the exercises of each lesson, you will receive a certificate from our Virtual College. Details about registration are given at the end of each lesson.

Good luck!

• Faith, feminism and the church
• Table principle
• Rereading from the margin

• Feminist methodology
• Rereading from the context
• Going round the spiral

• Feminist understanding of tradition
• Community of faith and struggle
• Feminist understanding of the church

• Order and change
• Organisation and ordination
• Quest for feminist leadership

• Iconoclasm of patriarchy
• Women in leadership
• House churches and household codes

• Community of the Spirit
• Authority in community
• Clues to feminist leadership

• Signs of Jubilee
• Confessing churches
• Confessional churches

• Mission of God
• Missionary structures
• Liberation structures

• Renewed Christian communities
• Basic Christian communities
• Feminist Christian communities