Marianne Katoppo

Henriette Marianne Katoppo (9 June 1943 – 12 October 2007) was an Indonesian novelist and internationally known Asian feminist theologian. She was a recipient of the S.E.A. Write Award.

Career Born in Tomohon, North Sulawesi, on 9 June 1943, Katoppo studied theology from 1963 at the Jakarta Theological Seminary, Sekolah Tinggi Teologi.

In 1979, Katoppo spoke about "Asian Theology: An Asian Woman's Perspective" at the first Asian Theological Conference in Sri Lanka. She served the ecumenical idea as a member of the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians (EATWOT), and was part of the executive committee of the Indonesian National Council of Churches (PGI).

Katoppo died in Bogor on 12 October 2007.

Because Katoppo considered her work apolitical and did not want it thought of as having any feminist political agenda, she believed the term "feminist theology" to be "too loaded."

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