Erbele-Kuster, Dorothea2019-09-252019-09-252013-04-032004-06-151017-3234http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/189558"Is the Bible a western or a universal book? Is it a patriarchal book or does it also have a liberating message for women? The Bible is still a unifying source of Christian theology across cultural borders, not in the last place, thanks to its presupposed authority. But its very concept of authority gets questioned in multicultural and multireligious contexts with a plurality of holy scriptures. At the same time the biblical canon is vigorously under discussion because of its androcentric character. These issues bearing in mind, I will portray in this article women 2 theologians from three different continents. Elsa Tamez, a Mexican (born 1950), is Professor of Biblical Studies at the Universidad Biblico Latinoamericano in San Jose, Costa Rica. Mercy Amba Oduyoye, born in Ghana in 1934 has worked for the World Council of Churches (WCC) in Geneva and the African Conference of Churches (ACC). She was on several occasions a visiting scholar in Europe and the USA."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderWomen TheologiansRereadingInter-Religious PluralityIntercultural DialogueDeconstructionCultural ethicsReligious ethicsCommunity ethicsEcumenismIntercultural and contextual theologiesArticle