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Dict. of Feminist Theologies.
In situations of oppression freedom is not a choice; nor is self-reliance. Frugality is enforced and sffering is present, but not chosen. Therefore, womanist ethics explores black ethical values, obligations, and duties from the conscious perspective of marginalization. p 91

The historical, social, and cultural situation of the past fifty years has pressed theology to undergo several large-scale or paradigm changes. In other words, the ways in which it arrives at metaphysical, logical, and existential judgments, about truth have changed. Theology articulates its new self-understandings practically and theoretically in several forms including, but not exhausting, the liberal, neo-orthodox, transcendental, process, metaphorical, political, liberation, contextual, and queer. p 284