Gabaitse, RosinahRosinahGabaitse2024-07-232024-07-232024978-3-98989-000-8https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/96496Beverly Haddad is a blend of three worlds. She is a woman, a priest and an intellectual activist for women’s rights and dignity. Her contribution to the theological and developmental discourse opposing the oppression and marginalization of African women is unquestionable. She was amongst the pioneers of women ordination in the Anglican Church, thus helping in the claiming of the right and place of women in the priesthood. Then she spent years as an academic, teaching and researching in the area of women, church and development, with the aim of discovering the role of the church and theology in the empowerment of marginalized women both in the church and in society. Her work focused on what Sandra Pertek (2022:201) calls “capturing the strength of survivors in coping with severity of exploitation.” These being African women. This article is an appraisal of Haddad’s contribution to the development of an appreciation of theology as a tool of building resilience in women’s groups so as to transform them from victims of oppression to agents of freedom and liberation. It will demonstrate that Haddad’s theology is interwoven with her developmental and ecclesiastical struggles, which emanate from the experiences of other African women with whom she is in solidarity.engSurvivaltheologyresiliencepriesthoodBeverly HaddadManyanos230bookpart