This work consists of essays on the so-called Middle Ages, seen from two perspectives. Writing from a sideline perspective, as opposed to the perspectives of historically mainstream theologies, in the first part of the book the author proposes a method for reading religious political texts with European philosophical insights but with a relevance for South Africa. This is done by comparing so-called Medieval texts with South African texts and situations within the demands of liberation, contextualisation, and communalism.
In the second part of the book, from a female perspective, the author reevaluates the post-Biblical history of Christianity, criticising the terms Patristics and Middle Ages . A South African women's theology is then offered as the outcome of the sideline perspective on the Bible, history and theology discussed in this book.