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Renate Wind has composed a well-researched and searching biography
of Dorothee Soelle (19292003), who became a true religious
provocateur and one of the most prolific and widely read
theologians of the postwar period. Born in Germany and educated at
the University of Cologne, Soelle turned from literary studies to
theology, concentrating on rethinking Christian convictions in
light of World War II and the Holocaust. A poet and activist as
well as theologian, after her arrival at Union Theological Seminary
in 1974, where she assumed the post previously held by Paul
Tillich, Soelle became a leading voice for the liberation of women
and against militarism, especially the Vietnam War. Her person,
work, travels, and the times themselves combined to make her a
pioneer and leader in the most exciting developments of the period:
political theology, feminist theology, and liberation theology.
Among her influential works were Christ the Representative (1967),
Suffering (1975), To Work and to Love (1984), Theology for Skeptics
(1994), and The Silent Cry (2001). Winds short and insightful
biography is informed by extensive interviews with Soelles friends
and family, especially her husband, Fulbert Steffensky, by use of
the familys archives, and by Winds extensive knowledge of
contemporary theology, political history, and the contemporary
church.
The fresh, critical translation of the volume is now available in
paper. Act and Being, written in 1929-1930 as Bonhoeffer's second
dissertation, deals with the questions of consciousness and
conscience in theology from the perspective of the Reformation
insight about the origin of human sinfulness in the "heart turned
in upon itself and thus open neither to the revelation of God nor
to the encounter with the neighbor." Here, therefore, we find
Bonhoeffer's thoughts about power, revelation, otherness,
theological method, and theological anthropology.
One of our generation's most prophetic religious voices recounts
her remarkable life-journey.
In the hundred years since The Women's Bible, giant strides have
been made in feminist interpretation of the Bible. Now comes the
first comprehensive overview of the whole field. The authors
systematically recount those efforts to describe the story of women
in both testaments, to uncover tendencies not supportive of women,
and to describe biblical traditions that empower women. The book
unfolds in three parts: Historical, Hermeneutical, and
Methodological Foundations Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of the
History of Israel Toward a Feminist Reconstruction of Early
Christianity
Written in 1929-1930 a Dietrich Bonhoeffer's second dissertation,
this book deals with the questions of consciousness and conscience
in theology fro the perspective of the Reformation insight about
the origin of human sinfulness in the "heart turned in upon neither
to the revelation of God nor to the encounter with the neighbor".
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