%0 Journal Article
%T Locating Prayerful Submission for Feminist Ecumenism: Holy Saturday or Incarnate Life?
%A Shelli M. Poe
%J Feminist Theology
%@ 1745-5189
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0966735017738655
%X R. Marie Griffith and Sarah Coakley suggest that feminist ecumenism across the evangelical-liberal spectrum is valuable for feminist studies of religion and theologies. In this context, I trace the conversation that has arisen around the idea of adopting ¡®submission¡¯ vis-¨¤-vis the Christian notion of kenosis, and turn it in a new direction. I argue that Coakley¡¯s apophatically cruciform understanding of submission in contemplative prayer contrasts with womanist approaches like that of Delores Williams. Drawing on Williams¡¯ considerations of atonement and Friedrich Schleiermacher¡¯s understanding of prayer, I offer ¡®incarnational submission¡¯ as a way to acknowledge the value of prayerful submission while avoiding its potentially oppressive features
%K Kenosis
%K incarnation
%K Womanism
%K prayer
%K Schleiermacher
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0966735017738655