We Dare to Dream: Doing Theology as Asian Women

The phenomenon of Asian women doing theology is recent. Christian women in Asia increasingly insist that unless their distinctive voices as Asians and as women are heard the emerging theologies cannot be liberating relevant or complete. Bringing together writings of women from the Philippines India Taiwan Hong Kong Malaysia Korea and Singapore We Dare to Dream first reworks some basic theological themes of Christology ecclesiology and the Holy Spirit from an Asian feminist perspective. Part II explores the realities of the Asian context through issues of peace politics sexuality and culture. Part Ill presents and explicates what doing theology as Asian women means. These writings are vital to theology throughout the world today. Not only do their authors take their own history and context seriously but they relate their experience to the experience of women throughout the world forging common bonds and venturing toward a world of justice and reciprocity. As the editors state Unless our thoughts as women are known and our voices heard the work toward rearticulating Christian theology in Asia will remain truncated. Gods face will be only half seen and Gods voice only half heard. One of the most important developments in feminist theology is its increasing globalization by Third World women. We Dare to Dream is an exciting example of this contextualization of feminist thought by Asian Christian women. --Rosemary Radford Ruether Two pioneering women in the development of Asian womens theology have collaborated to bring us a much-needed collection on how Asian women do theology in their own contexts. --Letty M. Russell Virginia Fabella a Maryknoll sister from the Philippines is Academic Dean of the Sister Formation Institute in Manila and Asia Coordinator for the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT). She is coeditor of With Passion and Compassion; Doing Theology in a Divided World; and Irruption of the Third World. Sun Ai Lee Park is an ordained minister of the Disciples of Christ from Korea. She is editor of the journal In Gods Image.