Virginia Fabella, M. M. is a Filipina

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

and

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, known for her works in

Asian feminist theology Asian feminist theology is a Christian feminist theology developed to be especially relevant to women in Asia and women of Asian descent. Inspired by both liberation theology and Christian feminism, it aims to contextualize them to the condit ...

and postcolonial theology.

Biography

Fabella was born in

Manila Manila ( , ; fil, Maynila, ), officially the City of Manila ( fil, Lungsod ng Maynila, ), is the capital of the Philippines, and its second-most populous city. It is highly urbanized and, as of 2019, was the world's most densely populate ...

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

. After graduating from the Assumption Convent in Manila and receiving a BS from Mt. St. Vincent College in New York, Fabella joined the Maryknoll Sisters in 1952. She would later receive an MA in Religious Studies from the

Maryknoll Seminary The Maryknoll Society is (also known as the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers and officially as Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America; Latin: ''Societas de Maryknoll pro missionibus exteris'') is a Catholic society of apostolic life founded ...

in 1980, a Certificate in Pastoral Studies from Union Theological in Chicago in 1988, and a DMin in

Women’s Studies Women's studies is an academic field that draws on Feminism, feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining Social constructionism, social and cultural constructs of gender; ...

from San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1993. Her doctoral dissertation was entitled "The Development of Women's Theological Consciousness within the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians." In the 1970s, Fabella was the program coordinator for the

Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians The Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT) is a network of theologians coming primarily from Africa, Asia, and Latin America and interested in creating theology that is relevant for their contexts. The group tended to critique tr ...

, later serving as its Asia Coordinator.

Theology

Fabella is perhaps best known for her authored and edited works on Asian feminist theology and postcolonial theology. In terms of

Christology In Christianity, Christology (from the Ancient Greek, Greek grc, Χριστός, Khristós, label=none and grc, wiktionary:-λογία, -λογία, wiktionary:-logia, -logia, label=none), translated literally from Greek as "the study of Chr ...

, Fabella has voiced that the maleness of Jesus is not a problem for Asian women, because by being male, "Jesus could more repudiate more effectively the male definition of humanity and show the way to a right and just male–female relationship."

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