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Enfleshing Theology honors and engages the life work of M. Shawn
Copeland, whose theology is groundbreaking and prophetic,
traversing the fields of Catholic Theology, Black Theology,
Womanist Thought, and Semiotics. The book opens with a brief
introduction, and then moves to an interview with Copeland, which
connects her theology to her life stories. The conversation with
Copeland also provides a backdrop to the seventeen essays that
follow, extending Copeland's theological worldview. The
contributions are divided according to the following sections:
embodiment, discipleship, and politics. The essays in the section
entitled "Engaging Embodiment" critically reflect on the importance
of embodiment in Christian theology and contemporary culture.
Following Copeland's lead, authors in this section theorize and
theologize the body, particularly (but not limited to) Black
women's bodies, as a locus theologicus that reveals, mediates, and
shapes the splendor and suffering reality of human existence. The
next section, entitled "Engaging Discipleship," focuses on the
concrete challenges of following Jesus in today's world. The essays
included in this section reflect on Copeland's focus on Jesus'
particularity in terms of his solidarity with and for others.
Discipleship is about modeling and mentoring, so scholars in this
section also comment on Copeland's contribution to teaching and
pedagogy. The last section, entitled "Engaging the Political,"
interrogates the political implications of the theological. It is
noteworthy that there are two trajectories of the political here,
one is Copeland's development of political theology through the
lens of Canadian Jesuit theologian, Bernard Lonergan. The other
trajectory focuses on the work of theology in contemporary art and
politics. These three sections are fluid and overlap with one
another. Several of the articles on embodiment speak to questions
of solidarity and a few of the essays on discipleship clearly
present as political. The ways in which each of the contributions
in this volume overlap with each other attests to the complex
nature of doing constructive theology today, and even more how
Copeland's work is at the forefront of that multi-layered,
polyvalent, intersectional theological work.
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