"Mining the Motherlode" clearly defines the tenets, resources, and Methods of Womanist Christian social Ethics by providing a Womanist orientation on how racial and gender ideologies as well as social position inform research Methods for this field.
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Floyd-Thomas accomplishes this by a) articulating the methodological contributions that Womanist ethicists have made in this field of Christian ethics; b) distinguishing between \'traditional Christian ethics\' and \'liberation ethics\'; and c) upholding Black women\'s moral struggles with race, class, and gender as an essential context to inform ethical inquiry and new possibilities for social justice. "Mining the Motherlode" clearly defines the tenets, resources, and Methods of Womanist Christian social Ethics by providing a Womanist orientation on how racial and gender ideologies as well as social position inform research Methods for this field
