Muriel Orevillo-Montenegro

Muriel Orevillo-Montenegro (born 1954) is a Filipina theologian known for her writings in Asian feminist theology. She is a Human Rights activist and Peace and Justice advocate.

Biography Orevillo-Montenegro's parents and grandparents were amongst the first generation of Protestant converts in the Philippines.

In 1994, when she finished Master of Divinity, she began teaching at the Divinity School of Silliman University. She later went for further studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York and received an S.T.M. in 1999 and a Ph.D. in 2003. In 2007, She was appointed and became the first female Dean of Silliman University Divinity School.

In 2018, she was appointed the Coordinator of Interfaith Cooperation Forum, based in the Asia and Pacific Alliance of YMCAs (APAY) in Hong Kong.

Theology Orevillo-Montenegro is best known for her writings in Asian feminist theology. She published the book The Jesus of Asian Women, to highlight the areas where Western Christologies are insufficient for Asian women. This book looks at feminist Christologies from South Korea to speak about creation care, Filipina Christologies to discuss liberation theologies, and Hong Kong Christologies and the use of postcolonial theology.

Elsewhere, she has critiqued the dominant popular Christologies in the Philippines of Sinulog and the Black Nazarene, and spoken about the need to reclaim the doctrine of the Incarnation for Asian women.

Publication

Orevillo-Montenegro, Muriel ad Gordon Zerbe. "The Letter to The Colossians." In A Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament Writings, edited by Fernando F. Segovia and R.S. Sugirtharajah, 294-303. London: T & T Clark, 2007. Orevillo-Montenegro, Muriel and Limuel Equiña. “Theological Education among the Protestant Schools in the Philippines: Retrospect and Prospect.” In Training to be Ministers in Asia: Contextualizing Theological Education in Multi-faith Contexts. Edited by Dietrich Werner. Taiwan: Program for Theology and Cultures in Asia, 2012.