The Grace of Difference: A Canadian Feminist Theological Ethic in Bloomington, MN

Marion J. Legge addresses theological ethics from the context of Canadian women — especially the experience of marginalized women in Canada. Beginning with a critical reassessment of Canadian Radical Christianity, she argues that approaches that center on question of economic justice have nevertheless overlooked the day-to-day economic realities of Canadian women. Legge develops a reformulated critical theory of culture that, though it emphasizes difference, avoids premature abstraction and misplaced generalizations. She seeks a voice to articulate the theological and ethical dimensions of women's experience in the texts of three Canadian novels:
In Search of April Raintree
, by Beatrice Cullen;
The Diviners
, by Margaret Laurence; and
Obasan
, by Joy Kogawa.