Isabel Carter Heyward (born 1945) is an American feminist theologian and priest in the Episcopal Church, the province of the worldwide Anglican Communion in the United States.
[citation needed] She taught at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from 1975, and was Howard Chandler Robbins Professor of Theology there until she retired in 2006.
[23] In her recent work she suggests that even the non-human creation may incarnate God, commenting that "there are more faces of Jesus on earth, throughout history and all of nature, than we can begin even to imagine".
[24] Not unrelated to this perception, Heyward founded the Free Rein Center for Therapeutic Horseback Riding and Education at Brevard, North Carolina, where she is an instructor[25] A consequence of this dynamic view of God and Christ is that truth is evolving, not static.
[27] So the theologian's task involves "a capacity to discern God's presence here and now and to reflect on what this means",[28] and is part of a communal effort and struggle to enable the flourishing of love and justice in a world where the potential for relationality is broken, often violently.
Mutual relationship entails a willingness to participate in healing a broken world, and so is not (Lucy Tatman notes)[30] a private or individualistic task.
[33] An appreciation of Heyward's work can be found in chapter five of Lucy Tatman's 2001 book Knowledge That Matters: A Feminist Theological Paradigm and Epistemology (London: Sheffield Academic Press).
[citation needed] In 2014 she co-edited with Janine Lehane The Spirit of the Lord Is upon Me: The Writings of Suzanne Hiatt (Seabury Books, NY).
Sue was a key figure among the Philadelphia Eleven and an "unofficial bishop" to many a woman ordinand and/or deacon in the United States and abroad.