L’apostola degli apostoli: La Teologia femminista della liberazione nel XX secolo

Between XIX and XX century, the Christian community started to bring into question the principles at the basis of their faith. Black and Latin American theologians used the concepts of race and social class to lay claim to equality inside the Church. In order to challenge the paradigm of the middle-class white men’s supremacy, further efforts have been done also by women. The article describes the principal features of the Feminist Liberation Theology across the XX century. By using the concept of diakonía elaborated by Russel (1977), the paper will analyze the role of women inside the Black Theology, and their struggle against androcentrism inside the Church. The article aims to point out the new concept of “liberty” that feminist theologians used as the basis of their vindications.