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Author: Maryanne Stevens
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2004-10-15
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 1592449476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book includes essays from a diverse group of female Biblical scholars who each bring a unique perspective to the idea of Jesus as a feminist.
Author: Rebecca S. Chopp
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published:
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781451416510
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Christian theology needs to be reconstructed in light of recent and momentous intellectual changes, social revolutions, and steep pedagogical challenges. That is the conviction of many of North America's leading theologians whose close collaboration over several years bring us this exciting volume. Reconstructing Christian Theology introduces theology in such a way that readers can discern the relevance of historical materials, pose theological questions, and begin to think theologically for themselves. Further, like other projects of the Workgroup on Constructive Theology, this volume stems from a deep desire to model a credible, creative, and engaged contemporary theology. So each chapter tackles major Christian teaching, juxtaposes it with a significant social or cultural challenge, and then reconstructs each in light of the other. The result is an innovative and compelling way to learn how theology can contribute to rethinking the most pressing issues of our day.
Author: William Johnson Everett
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1532687176
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Biblical religion is driven by a longing for God’s ultimate order of justice and peace. Most of this longing is steeped in the patriarchal symbols of kingship, monarchs, lords, fathers, and princes. This symbolism came to bind European churches to the legitimation of monarchies and empires for over a millennium. The American and now global experiment separated the churches, with their kingdom language, from government dedicated to democratic, republican, and federal constitutional order. Religious efforts to guide and critique government have subsequently suffered from political irrelevance or theocratic nationalism. Everett lifts up the biblical and classical origins of our present republican experiment to construct a theological position and religious symbolism that can imaginatively engage our present public life with a contemporary language permeated with a transcendent vision.
Author: Terence Bateman
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1451472110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Francis Schussler Fiorenza is one of the pivotal contemporary Roman Catholics working in the field of systematic theology and has made vital contributions to the discipline. This book - the first of its kind - provides an overview of Fiorenza's theological biography, from early influences and original insights to a comprehensively systematic project to reconstruct the foundations of theology, and explicates the major contours of Fiorenza's vital contributions to theological method, foundational, systematic and constructive theology, and the practical function of religion in society and politics. As the author argues, Fiorenza's vision is one of unrivaled clarity and coherence; even more, it follows a path of the shifting patterns in theology over the past half century, thus shedding light upon the internal constitution of recent Catholic and Protestant theology.
Author: Revd Dr Hannah Lewis
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-05-28
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1409477525
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Following years of theology of deafness based on the premise that Deaf people are simply people who cannot hear, this book breaks new ground. Presenting a new approach to Deaf people, theology and the Church, this book enables Deaf people who see themselves as members of a minority group to formulate their own theology rooted in their own history and culture. Deconstructing the theology and practice of the Church, Hannah Lewis shows how the Church unconsciously oppresses Deaf people through its view of them as people who cannot hear. Lewis reclaims Deaf perspectives on Church history, examines how an essentially visual Deaf culture can relate to the written text of the Bible and asks 'Can Jesus sign?' This book pulls together all these strands to consider how worship can be truly liberating, truly a place for Deaf people to celebrate who they are before God.
Author: Jan A. B. Jongeneel
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9783631596883
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on the author's thesis (Th.D.)--Leiden University, 1971.
Author: Neil H. Williams
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2011-01-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1608998932
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At the center of Christianity is Jesus of Nazareth--whose maleness is used by many to justify the subordination of women and to emphasize that men, rather than women, better represent Jesus. This raises a number of questions that are the subject of this book. What is the significance of Jesus' maleness? Does it reveal the character of God? Is it foundational for the gospel? Is Jesus' maleness associated with an ongoing created order of male priority? Our answers will affect Christianity's task of love, justice, and reconciliation in a world that is characterized by the global marginalization, oppression, and abuse of women.
Author: Richard Grigg
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2000-08-10
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780791446485
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses the issue of christological pluralism--the panoply of competing visions of Christ that exist today--and provides criteria for evaluating these.
Author: Don Schweitzer
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1621891909
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jesus Christ for Contemporary Life is an understanding of Jesus as the Word of God, grounded in what can be known historically of Jesus and informed by subsequent reflection upon him, which hopes to help shape a Christian identity characterized by "bounded openness." In Jesus Christ for Contemporary Life, Don Schweitzer explores the significance of the person, work, and relationships of Jesus Christ for contemporary life. He moves from the historical Jesus to the present in three parts. In the first part Schweitzer develops an understanding of Jesus as the Word of God, who became incarnate to give the goodness and beauty of God further expression in time and space. Second, he explores how various atonement theories articulate ways in which Jesus empowers people to further express this beauty and goodness in their own lives. And finally, Schweitzer explores how Jesus relates to people in the church, to the events and movements in history, to other religions, and to Christians in their dialogue with God in prayer.
Author: James Newton Poling
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780800629045
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Deliver Us From Evil explores the history of resistance to racial and gender oppression-from a slave woman in nineteenth-century America to a woman patient of Sigmund Freud-and traces the failed promises of the American Revolution in the oppression of subordinate groups. Poling reviews resistance by analyzing communities that understand evil as the abuse of power. Also treated are definitions of evil and debates between womanist and feminist theologians. Jesus emerges as a model for marginalized and oppressed people, as Poling calls for prophetic acts of solidarity to create new possibilities for healing and justice.
