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Breaking the Glass Box (Hardcover)
Jungja Joy Yu; Foreword by Rosemary Radford Ruether; Illustrated by Allison E. Becker
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R863
Discovery Miles 8 630
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America in God's World (Hardcover)
Kenneth L Vaux; Edited by Melanie Baffles; Foreword by Rosemary Radford Ruether
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R920
Discovery Miles 9 200
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In Women Healing Earth noted theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether
brings together illuminating writings of fourteen Latin American,
Asian, and African women on the meaning of eco-theological issues
in their own contexts - and the implications they have for women in
the first world. Ruether has spent the last several years exploring
the environmental crisis, the roles of religion and feminists, and
what third-world women have to say. Ecofeminists in the North must
listen carefully to women in the South since common problems can
only be solved by understanding cultural and historical
differences. When women of the South reflect on ecological themes,
these questions are rooted in life and death matters, not in
theory, nor statistics. As Ruether writes, "Deforestation means
women walking twice as far each day to gather wood .... Pollution
means children in shantytowns dying of dehydration from unclean
water". Impoverishment of the environment equals literal
impoverishment for the vast majority of people on the planet. In
addressing the intertwining issues of ecology, of class and race,
of religion and its liberative elements, Women Healing Earth offers
profound insights for all women and men involved in the struggles
to overcome violence against women and nature, and to ensure
ecological preservation and social justice.
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Until the Rain (Hardcover)
Anne Soerman; Foreword by Rosemary Radford Ruether
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R763
Discovery Miles 7 630
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From the earliest interactions of Christians with the Roman Empire
to today's debates about the separation of church and state, the
Christian churches have been in complex relationships with various
economic and political systems for centuries. Renowned theologian
Rosemary Radford Ruether analyzes the ways the Christian church has
historically interacted with powerful systems such as patriarchy,
racism, slavery, and environmentalism, while looking critically at
how the church shapes these systems today. With a focus on the
United States, Christianity and Social Systems provides an
introductory analysis of the interactions between the churches and
major systems that have shaped western Christian and post-Christian
society. Ruether discusses ideologies, such as liberalism and
socialism, and includes three country case studies-Nicaragua, South
Africa, and North and South Korea-to further illustrate the
profound influences Christianity and social systems have with each
other. This book is neither an attack on the relationship between
Christianity and these systems, nor an apology, but rather a
nuanced examination of the interactions between them. By
understanding how these interactions have shaped history, we can
more fully understand how to make ethical decisions about the role
of Christianity in some of today's most pressing social issues,
from economic and class disparities to the environmental crisis.
From the earliest interactions of Christians with the Roman Empire
to today's debates about the separation of church and state, the
Christian churches have been in complex relationships with various
economic and political systems for centuries. Renowned theologian
Rosemary Radford Ruether analyzes the ways the Christian church has
historically interacted with powerful systems such as patriarchy,
racism, slavery, and environmentalism, while looking critically at
how the church shapes these systems today. With a focus on the
United States, Christianity and Social Systems provides an
introductory analysis of the interactions between the churches and
major systems that have shaped western Christian and post-Christian
society. Ruether discusses ideologies, such as liberalism and
socialism, and includes three country case studies-Nicaragua, South
Africa, and North and South Korea-to further illustrate the
profound influences Christianity and social systems have with each
other. This book is neither an attack on the relationship between
Christianity and these systems, nor an apology, but rather a
nuanced examination of the interactions between them. By
understanding how these interactions have shaped history, we can
more fully understand how to make ethical decisions about the role
of Christianity in some of today's most pressing social issues,
from economic and class disparities to the environmental crisis.
In Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective, Marti Kheel explores
the underlying worldview of "nature ethics," offering an
alternative ecofeminist perspective. She focuses on four prominent
representatives of holist philosophy: two early conservationists
(Theodore Roosevelt and Aldo Leopold) and two contemporary
philosophers (Holmes Rolston III, and transpersonal ecologist
Warwick Fox). Kheel argues that in directing their moral allegiance
to abstract constructs (e.g. species, the ecosystem, or the
transpersonal Self) these influential nature theorists represent a
masculinist orientation that devalues concern for individual
animals. Seeking to heal the divisions among the seemingly
disparate movements and philosophies of feminism, animal advocacy,
environmental ethics, and holistic health, Kheel proposes an
ecofeminist philosophy that underscores the importance of empathy
and care for individual beings as well as larger wholes.
In Nature Ethics: An Ecofeminist Perspective, Marti Kheel explores
the underlying worldview of nature ethics, offering an alternative
ecofeminist perspective. She focuses on four prominent
representatives of holist philosophy: two early conservationists
(Theodore Roosevelt and Aldo Leopold) and two contemporary
philosophers (Holmes Rolston III, and transpersonal ecologist
Warwick Fox). Kheel argues that in directing their moral allegiance
to abstract constructs (e.g. species, the ecosystem, or the
transpersonal Self) these influential nature theorists represent a
masculinist orientation that devalues concern for individual
animals. Seeking to heal the divisions among the seemingly
disparate movements and philosophies of feminism, animal advocacy,
environmental ethics, and holistic health, Kheel proposes an
ecofeminist philosophy that underscores the importance of empathy
and care for individual beings as well as larger wholes.
Violence remains endemic in today's society. Religious morality and
social prejudice can lead to many acts of violence going unnoticed.
'Weep Not for Your Children' presents a selection of essays that
examine the ways in which religion and violence interconnect. The
presence of violence in the origins of cultural and religious norms
is examined. The essays cover a wide range of examples of violence:
from the Holocaust to domestic violence and from the violence
created by economic systems to that created by the construction of
gender itself. 'Weep Not for Your Children' challenges and provokes
the reader to think beyond traditional associations of good and
evil.
Violence remains endemic in today's society. Religious morality and
social prejudice can lead to many acts of violence going unnoticed.
'Weep Not for Your Children' presents a selection of essays that
examine the ways in which religion and violence interconnect. The
presence of violence in the origins of cultural and religious norms
is examined. The essays cover a wide range of examples of violence:
from the Holocaust to domestic violence and from the violence
created by economic systems to that created by the construction of
gender itself. 'Weep Not for Your Children' challenges and provokes
the reader to think beyond traditional associations of good and
evil.
Traces the historical and ideological patterns of the view
Americans have of themselves as an elect nation inhabiting a
promised land and enjoying a uniquely favored relation with God and
a mission to spread redemption qua democracy throughout the world.
This view, coupled with racial exclusivism, privileges whites and
marginalizes other citizens. In the 18th and 19th centuries a
doctrine of the rights of man excluded the two primary non-white
groups present in the territory, Native Americans and Africans.
Manifest Destiny justified the expansion across the North American
continent, while forcing Mexico through war to cede a third of its
land, excluding Mexicans, Indians, Africans and Asians from this
expanded citizenry. In the 20th century, American perception of its
mission became imperialist beyond the continental borders,
occupying the Philippines and the Caribbean, claiming hegemonic
dominance over Latin America and the Pacific islands. Since WWII,
the US has taken the role of Global policeman to enforce
neocolonial relations over much of the third world and beyond.
America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns
of the U.S. American view of themselves as an elect nation
inhabiting a promised land and enjoying a uniquely favored relation
with God and a mission to spread redemption qua democracy
throughout the world. This view of unique election has been coupled
racial exclusivism privileging and marginalizing non-whites as
citizens of the nation. In the 18th and 19th centuries a doctrine
of the rights of man excluded the two primary non-white groups
present in the territory, Native Americans and Africans. Manifest
Destiny justified the expansion across the North American
continent, while forcing Mexico through war to cede a third of its
land, excluding Mexicans, Indians, Africans and Asians from this
expanded citizenry. In the 20th century, American perception of its
mission became imperialist beyond the continental borders,
occupying the Philippines and the Caribbean
Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization, and World Religions
addresses the practical relevance of the interconnection of
feminism, ecology, and religious theological thought, and will ask
questions about the lack of attention to gender issues in both
ecological theology and deglobalization theory. The book knits
together four concerns: globalization, interfaith ecological
theology, ecofeminism, and deglobalization movements and thought.
It examines how gender needs to be connected with inter-faith
ecological theology and with critical analysis of globalization. It
asks how to connect theory and practice; and how theoretical views
about a more earth friendly theology have actual relevance to the
deglobalization struggle. The book looks at these issues
comparatively across different world religions and across different
regions of the earth.
Description: Breaking the Glass Box includes spiritual formation
process for liberation from gender oppression through multiple
awareness practices of conflicts in han-based Korean culture of
society and church. The metaphor has multiple liberation process:
""invisible glass box,"" ""visible glass box,"" ""breaking the
glass box,"" and ""sticky rice."" This liberation process includes
consicentization, consciousness-raising, and a heightened cultural
awareness in discerning the reasons of interpersonal conflicts in
Korean socio-cultural contexts. By exploring the multi-faceted
han-jeong dynamics with Feminist theology and Asian Feminism, the
important aspects of re-imaging the self and God as spiritual
formation have been examined with contemplative practices of
Internal Family System (IFS) and self-compassion to create the
healthy jeong-filled solidarity group. The ""sticky rice"" is a new
cultural paradigm for Korean women's jeong-filled hospitality. The
broken pieces of the glass box will be transformed into the grains
of rice by the positive jeong-filled hospitality of cooking sticky
rice. In the solidarity group of jeong-filled hospitality,
represented by rice ready to cook a serving of delicious sticky
rice, people can enjoy the fellowship of healing, forgiving, and
reconciling of the sticky rice. These images are intended to
promote a healthy community of ministry and spirituality for Korean
women.
In telling the story of her sons thirty-year struggle with
schizophrenia, Ruether lays bare the inhumane treatment throughout
history of people with mental illness. Despite countless reforms by
idealistic reformers and an enlightened understanding that mental
illness is a physical disease like any other, conditions for people
who struggle with mental illness are little improved. Ruether asks
why this is so and then goes on to imagine what we would do for
people with mental illness if we really cared.
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America in God's World (Paperback)
Kenneth L Vaux; Edited by Melanie Baffles; Foreword by Rosemary Radford Ruether
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R619
R514
Discovery Miles 5 140
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Introductions in Feminist Theology (IFT) explores various
theological topics that challenge patriarchal theology and suggest
liberating alternatives. The authors and editors seek to expand
theological discourse by providing reliable guides to the history
of thinking, current issues and debates, and possible future
developments in feminist theology.
Modernity and postmodernity are intensely contested interpretive
spaces. In a time, or mood, that many in the industrialized world
consider to be "postmodern," what should the contribution of
Christian theology be? What are its chances, its challenges, its
hopes and limits? This volume represents a collection of approaches
by various authors whose work engages the contemporary theological
space-modern, postmodern, and otherwise - in ways that are in
critical conversation with "radical orthodoxy," but suggesting
alternative approaches and readings. The authors in this volume
respond to "radical orthodoxy's" controversial claims about
postmodern space, in ways that aim to acknowledge the importance of
the questions and critiques raised by Milbank, Pickstock, Ward, and
others, but that proposes different responses to issue crucial to
contemporary theological discourse such as: the difficulty to
engage the powerful critiques offered by radical orthodoxy, while
resisting the totality of vision and approach, the struggle for
justice against poverty and predatory capitalism, theologies of
incarnation, theological gender constructions, participation and
presence in the eucharistic liturgy, narrative legitimacy through
periodization, the radical nature of ethnic and cultural Otherness,
reciprocity and redemption, immanence and transcendence, feminist
philosophy of religion, a Jewish feminist re-enchantment of the
world, theological eurocentrism, theologies of gift and economic
exchange, and constructive theology.
This study on the life and thought of St. Gregory of Nazianzus was
written by feminist theologian and Patristic scholar, Rosemary
Radford Ruether, as her doctoral dissertation and originally
published by Oxford University Press in 1969. The focus of the
study is the tension and conflict in the life of Gregory of
Nazianzus and his contemporary Christian companions, such as Basil
the Great and Gregory Nyssa, between rhetoric and philosophy. This
is a conflict that has deep roots in Greek culture, going back to
the time of Isocrates and Plato. It reflects two major streams of
Greek culture, the literary tradition of classical education and
public argumentation, with its often specious use of language, and
the philosophical search for truth which saw itself as culminating
in spiritual communion with the Good, the True and the Beautiful.
In the Christian context of the fourth century A.D. this conflict
had been translated into a tension between classical literary
education, which still shaped the socialization of Christian
leaders such as Gregory and informed the patterns of their
preaching, and their search for contemplative union with God.
Gregory and others spoke of the ascetic life of emerging Christian
monasticism as the philosophical life, thus incorporating this
tension between rhetoric and philosophy into their own lives. For
Gregory and other Christian leader of his time, Christians should
renounce worldly ambition and even Christian positions of power,
such as episcopacy, to pursue the separated life of monastic
discipline, yet even in this ascetic retirement they found it
difficult not to continue to employ the much-loved literary culture
of their youthful education. This book shows how this tension
played out in Gregory's own life, including his relation with his
friend and school companion, Basil the Great, who shared the quest
for the monastic life with Gregory, but later became a bishop and
sought to secure his power against church rivals by forcing
episcopacy upon both Gregory Nazianzus and his own brother, Gregory
Nyssa. The volume also studies the way in which Gregory of
Nazianzus employs rhetorical conventions to shape his own literary
style in his sermons and treatises. It then focuses on the
anthropology and cosmology that underlay Gregory's understanding of
the philosophical life as a journey of communion with God. In the
final chapter it reviews Gregory's own struggles to find a modus
vivendi between the two cultures of classical literary education
and the ascetic, contemplative life. This is a struggle that did
not end with the fourth century, but continued to shape a Christian
culture that adopted classical Greek literature as the basis of its
educational curriculum and yet also taught the ideals of the soul's
quest for God. Rosemary Radford Ruether has been a pioneer
Christian feminist theologian for over three decades and is among
the most widely read theologians in the world. Her book, Sexism and
God-Talk, a classic in the field of theology, remains the only
systematic feminist treatment of the Christian symbols to date.
With wide-ranging scholarship, Dr. Ruether has written and edited
over thirty books and hundreds of articles and reviews.
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