Rachel Baard

Rachel Sophia Beard is a South African theologian. Since 2019, she is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. Her first book, Sexism and Sin-Talk: Feminist Conversations on the Human Condition (2019) won the 2020 Andrew Murray / Desmond Tutu Book Prize. Her research areas include systematic and constructive theology, theological ethics, and feminist and political theologies. Quotes We live in a different time than we lived in a year ago. And I wish we were sitting here talking about this dystopian fictional world, and how glad we are that we’re not intent. Christian idea of sin — that tragic flaw at the core of human experience provides one of the best tools for understanding the evils of sexism, patriarchy, and traditional sin-talk itself. belief of sin by Rachel Gender violence should be seen as a patriarchy control mechanism, since it is systemic and rooted in sexist cultural practices and perspectives and it leads women to adjust behavior in order to avoid violence page 44 External links Category:Theologians from South Africa Category:Women authors from South Africa Category:Living people Category:Women academics from South Africa