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She Who Changes: Re-imagining the Divine in the World by Carol P. Christ. New York, NY: Palgrave MacMillan, 2003, 277 pp., $24.95 hardcover, $18.95 paper.
In what is arguably her best book to date, Carol Christ reaches across the boundaries of religious difference to establish a renewed dialogue and a shared sense of common purpose in the feminist study of religions. In She Who Changes, Christ draws on the work of American process philosopher Charles Hartshorne to establish a feminist process paradigm that restores both body and world to the divine and raises challenging questions about the nature of divine power and its relation to the world.
Process philosophy and feminist theology share several commonalities, including the idea that all life-even the divine-is a process of constant change. In process philosophy, like Buddhism, the individual is not static but rather dynamic, social, and intimately connected to the world. Similarly, the divine is inherently part of a dynamic and relational universe.
When Carol...