Feminist theologies during the past decade have presented a series of revised images of divinity. At the ecumenical 1993 Re-Imagining Conference, women articulated these ideas and were vilified by a conservative Christian backlash that branded them as heretics and neopagans. In this scholarly tome, Laurel C. Schneider, an assistant professor of religious studies at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, proclaims that "divinity itself must be understood as more open and more variously concrete, more transient, more particular, and ultimately more great."
Schneider argues that constructive feminist theologies are grounded in "the skepticism of the metaphoric exemption and the affirmation of experiential confession." She traces how this admixture has come about and then concludes with a prophetic critique of exclusive monotheism, where divine universality is severely constricted. Schneider ends the book with a salute to robust feminist experiences of divinity in thought, word, deed, and physical embodiment.