„Amit az utolsó fejezet mond a vallásról, megdöbbentő lesz!” Margaret Brackenbury Crook tiszteletes élete és teológiai tanításai
“The Religion in the Last Chapter Will Shock Him.” The Life and Th eology of the Rev. Margaret Brackenbury Crook

Summary/Abstract: A pioneering British woman minister, a groundbreaking biblical scholar and a mid-20th century theologian, Margaret Brackenbury Crook is virtually unknown today. This biographical study sets out to uncover her life and work. From being among the first women ministry students at Manchester College, Oxford 1917, to the thwarting of her pioneering woman’s ministry when she moved to America in 1920, her life experience contributed both to her scholarship and to her remaining unknown. Then fi nding herself unexpectedly on the faculty of Smith College, Miss Crook developed a reputation as a Biblical scholar. Aft er thirty-three years, Margaret Crook’s early commitment to women’s agency foreshadowed her writing on women’s role in religion. With retirement in 1964 she wrote her breakthrough book, Women and Religion. Th is book opened religious history and biblical interpretation to a feminist critique. She also off ers a theology of an inclusive God-Emergent who seeks mutuality with women and men before feminist theology was even acknowledged. Margaret Brackenbury Crook has been recognized posthumously by feminist scholars, including Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, for identifying the andocentric nature of Biblical texts.

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