Attunement

Abstract

Abstract Feminist theologians have received the patriarchal inheritance that constitutes the field of Christian theology largely through modes of critique and avoidance, two modes of engagement that have established the field of feminist theology by exposing texts’ and artifacts’ strategies of domination and amplifying more generative voices. This chapter notes the merits of these modes while also describing their limitations in transforming theological discourse. It introduces attunement as an alternative, additional mode of interpretation, illustrating the different possibilities the mode opens and affords by performing feminist readings of Augustine’s Confessions, first in the mode of critique and then in the mode of attunement.