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This leading feminist theologian offers an exciting introduction to
a most creative field of biblical interpretation which the author
says is best understood as the search for Divine Wisdom. She offers
a review of the art that is not merely informative, but liberating.
Challenging mainstream hermeneutic strategies she empowers us to
think critically and enter creatively into a life-transforming
journey.
The New Testament writing known as First Peter was probably written
at the end of the 1st century CE; it is addressed to 'resident
aliens' who live as colonial subjects in the Roman Province of Asia
Minor. They are portrayed as a marginalized group who experience
harassment and suffering. This letter is ascribed to the apostle
Peter but was probably not written by him. It is a rhetorical
communication sent from Christians in the imperial centre in Rome
(camouflaged as Babylon), an authoritative letter of advice and
admonition to good conduct and subordination in the sphere of
colonial provincial life. 1 Peter is a religious document written a
long time ago and in a culture and world that is quite different
from our own. However, as a biblical book it is a part of
Christianity's sacred Scriptures. This guide to the letter keeps
both of these areas, the cultural-social and the ethical-religious,
in mind. It offers help for understanding the letter as both a
document of the 1st century and as sacred Scripture that speaks
about the religious forces that have shaped Christianity and
Western culture. In short, this guide seeks to enable readers to
read 'against the grain'.
Changing Horizons is the second of two volumes highlighting the
ways in which Elisabeth Schssler Fiorenzas work constructs a
critical feminist theory and praxis of liberation, in relation to
the biblical text and its legacy, and in relation to the
theological and ecclesial setting of today. In these essays
collected from her extraordinary career, Schssler Fiorenza attempts
to free both biblical studies and theology from disciplinary
constraints and assumptions that have allowed them to acquiesce and
even perpetuate forms of oppressionfrom racism and poverty to
colonialism and gender equality. While Schssler Fiorenzas feminist
critical approach begins with the experience of women, that
experience is appropriated through the lens of critical theory and
a critical understanding of social and religious oppressions. It
is, further, political in its aim to dethrone kyriarchal structures
and foment genuinely egalitarian community in church and society.
Elizabeth Schussler Fiorenza argues that it is necessary to
reframe the field of biblical studies and replace the competitive
teaching models prevalent in graduate programs with an
emancipatory, radical democratic pedagogical model that fosters
collaboration, participation, and critical engagement. To achieve
constructive engagement with the differences of social location and
diversity of perspectives that exist both in the Bible and in our
contexts, Fiorenza argues, we must become aware of the pitfalls of
one-dimensional thinking that seeks to use the Bible to find
definite answers and to exclude different understandings.
What is the purpose of reading the Bible? Elisabeth Sch?ssler
Fiorenza tackles the tough question of the Bible's role in the
world today and how its vision can further a more just world. She
shows particularly the radical power of the Word to challenge
imperial ways, the humiliation of persons, and the use of religion
itself to keep people down, today as then. Finally, she offers an
understanding of the implications of such a program for the field
and practice of biblical studies, an indispensable partner in
challenging the status quo.
With Empowering Memory and Movement, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
completes a three-volume look across her influential work and
career. In Transforming Vision (2011), she drew from decades of
pioneering scholarship to offer the contours of a critical feminist
hermeneutic. The chapters in Changing Horizons (2013) sketched out
a theory of liberation. Now, the consequences for a liberating
praxis are elaborated in interviews and essays that chart Schussler
Fiorenza's own personal and professional history as these are
intertwined with the history of the worldwide movement for
emancipation and full equality. Empowering Memory and Movement
looks back, but also looks around at challenges and potentialities
on the global scene, and looks ahead to an emancipatory future,
with a critical and wise engagement with scripture and the
interpretive tradition always at the center.
In Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet Elisabeth Schussler
Fiorenza makes a unique contribution to two quite different
discussions of Jesus the Christ. On the one hand, she looks at
biblical christology from a critical feminist perspective in the
tradition of liberation theology. On the other, she examines the
feasibility of a feminine christology by considering such problems
as Christian anti-Judaism, ideological justification of domination,
religious exclusivism and the formation of patriarchal identity.
Re-imagining the Jesus movement in a feminist key transcends the
boundaries set by history, gender and doctrine. By assessing
various Jesus traditions and interpretations in terms of whether
they can engender liberating visions for today, Schussler Fiorenza
seeks to challenge and transform a Christianity dominated by
masculinity and exclusivist theological frameworks so that it
offers a vision of justice and well-being for all, the central
image in which is the reign, the coming world, of God. This
Cornerstones edition features a new extended introduction which
takes into account the developments in the field since the work was
originally published in 1994.
Drawing from a career of pioneering scholarship, Schussler Fiorenza
situates the critical feminist theory that has characterized her
work in the praxis of liberation. These pathbreaking essays
challenge academic and ecclesiastical theologians to embrace
critical theory and the analysis of overlapping oppressions in
their work. Transforming Vision seeks to free theology from the
disciplinary constraints that allow acquiescence to and
perpetuation of oppression.
Me acerco al tema Poder, genero, diversidad y religion no
simplemente en terminos de los estudios academicos de genero o de
mu/jeres, sino en terminos de una teoria politica feminista y una
teologia de la liberacion. Una teologia de la liberacion feminista
y critica busca interactuar con el analisis teorico de genero, y
tambien analizar la interseccion de las multiples estructuras de
opresion que constituyen las estructuras kyriarcales de dominacion.
Tal interseccion tiene tanto efectos personales como politicos.
While scholars of the New Testament and its Roman environment have
recently focused attention on ethnicity, on the one hand, and
gender on the other, the two questions have often been discussed
separatelyand without reference to the contemporary critical study
of race theory. This interdisciplinary volume addresses this lack
by drawing together new essays by prominent scholars in the fields
of New Testament, classics, and Jewish studies. These essays push
against the marginalization of race and ethnicity studies and put
the received wisdom of New Testament studies squarely in the
foreground.
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Concilium 2002/5 (Paperback)
Maria Pilar Aquino Vargas, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
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I -- Women's rights as human rights in a global context, The --
rights of women and human rights: achievements and contradictions :
Evelyn A. Kirkley -- Women's rights as human rights in a global
context, globalization and the violation of wo/men's rights :
Ann-Cathrin Jarl -- Between women: migrant domestic work and gender
inequalities in the new global economy : Rhacel Salazar Parren?as
-- Feminist struggles for women's rights: towards a new global
agenda : Virginia Vargas -- Catholicism and women's rights as human
rights : Maria?-Jose? Rosado-Nunes -- Feminist problematization of
rights language and universal conceptualizations of human rights :
Isabelle Barker : Jasbir Kaur Puar -- II -- Religious and
theological structures: violating or supporting women's rights --
Women's rights to full citizenship and decision-making in the
church : Margarita Pintos de Cea-Naharro -- A -- women's right to
not being straight (El derecho a no ser derecha): on theology,
church and pornography : Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid -- In God's
image: theology in the articulation of women's rights : Lieve Troch
-- Inter-religious and inter-cultural work for women's rights :
Margaret Shanthi-Stephens
In this major study, leading feminist biblical critic Elisabeth
Schussler Fiorenza focuses on Paul and his interpreters. She
questions the apolitical ethos of biblical scholarship and argues
for an alternative rooted in a critical understanding of language
as a form of power. Modern biblical criticism, she reasons, derives
much of its methodology and inspiration from an outdated notion of
modern science. It professes value-neutrality and detachment from
the world of politics and history. Yet, Schussler Fiorenza
maintains, this posture belies an objectivity that fails to engage
the sociopolitical context of both the text and today's reader. It
also does not recognize the rhetorical character of biblical texts
and readings. If language is understood in the sense of ancient
rhetorics as a form of power that constitutes reality, then an
ethics of interpretation is called for. The task of biblical
studies is to identify and assess the ethical resources and moral
visions of biblical religions. "Only then," Schussler Fiorenza
contends, "will bibical studies be a significant partner in the
global struggles seeking justice and well-being for all."
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza's pioneering and widely acclaimed
volume, now reissued with a new Preface and Epilogue, has served to
reorient interpretations of this controversial book. Rather than
finding an individual Christian vision of a fiery endtime,
Schussler Fiorenza writes of Christian communities living in the
shadow of imperial power, fearing denunciation by their neighbors,
yet envisioning the eventual effect of Jesus Christ's resurrection
and enthronement on the whole social order. In Sch ssler Fiorenza's
theological-historical analyses, the Book of Revelation is a
literary product of early Christian prophecy, and her
interpretation leads to distinctive notions of the book's
composition, social intent, relation to the Gospel of John, and
visionary rhetoric of apocalypse and justice.
This feminist classic explores the ways in which women can read the
Christian Bible with full understanding of both its oppressive and
its liberating functions. In the substantial new Afterword to this
edition, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza situates "Bread Not Stone" in
relation to mainstream Biblical scholarship, Catholic and
Protestant theologies, liberation theologies, and
nineteenth-century feminist writings on the Bible.
One of the world's leading feminist theologians demonstrates how
reading the Bible can be spiritually and politically empowering for
women. Schussler Fiorenza challenges us to destroy the dominant
models of biblical interpretations that have held some people in
subordination and to construct m"
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Concilium 175 (Paperback)
Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, David Tracy
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Hearing the testimony of radical negation / Susan Shapiro -- In our
terrible age : the tremendum of the Jews / Arthur Cohen --
Interruption of the forgotten / Rebecca Chopp -- "Facing the Jews"
: Christian theology after Auschwitz / Johann-Baptist Metz --
Holocaust and political theology / Gregory Baum -- Holocaust and
contemporary christology / John Pawlikowski -- Anti-Judaism in the
New Testament / Luise Schottroff -- Contribution of church history
to a post-Holocaust theology : Christian anti-Judaism as the root
of anti-Semitism / Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz -- Holocaust in
theology and philosophy : the question of truth / Mary Knutsen --
Holocaust writings : a literary genre? / Mary Gerhart -- Holocaust
as interruption and the Christian return to history / Elisabeth
Schussler Fiorenza and David Tracy.
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