Liberating Eschatology

by Russell, Letty M.; Jones, Serene

• ISBN13: 9780664257880
• ISBN10: 0664257887
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

This volume addresses a theme long essential to feminist and liberationist theology: in what can we hope, and what role should hope play in our actions and our lives? It provides a constructive set of proposals and fills a crucial gap in theological resources as well-known contributors address the theme from their different contexts and fields.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii	(10)
Serene Jones
Margaret A. Farley
Contributors	xvii
PART 1. LIBERATING THE TABLE: THEOLOGY AND THE PRAXIS OF LETTY M. RUSSELL	3	(44)
1. Translation, Education, and Liberation: A Retrospective	3	(13)
J. SHANNON CLARKSON
2. The Theological Vision of Letty Russell	16	(10)
ROSEMARY RADFORD RUETHER
3. Journeying to the Household of God: The Eschatological Implications of Method in the Theology of Letty Mandeville Russell	26	(21)
M. SHAWN COPELAND
PART 2. LIBERATING THE FUTURE: STORIES AT THE TABLE	47	(76)
4. Bible in the Round	47	(8)
PHYLLIS TRIBLE
5. Ruth 4, an Image of Eschatological Hope: Journeying with a Text	55	(13)
KATHARINE DOOB SAKENFELD
6. Dreaming from Exile: A Rereading of Ezekiel 47:1-12	68	(7)
ELSA TAMEZ
7. Race, Sex, and Insanity: Transformative Eschatology in Hurston's Account of the Ruby McCollum Trial	75	(15)
KATIE G. CANNON
8. They Sought a City: Martin's Dream or Malcolm's Nightmare	90	(15)
JAMES H. CONE
9. A Coming Home to Myself: The Childless Woman in the West African Space	105	(18)
MERCY AMBA ODUYOYE
PART 3. LIBERATING THEOLOGY: THE WORK OF THE TABLE	123	(52)
10. To Follow the Vision: The Jesus Movement as Basileia Movement	123	(21)
ELISABETH SCHUSSLER FIORENZA
11. Mending of Creation: Women, Nature, and Eschatological Hope	144	(12)
KWOK PUI-LAN
12. Feminist Thea(o)logies at the Millennium: "Messy" Continued Resistance or Surrender to Post-Modern Academic Culture?	156	(19)
BEVERLY WILDUNG HARRISON
PART 4. LIBERATING ESCHATOLOGY: THE HOPE OF THE TABLE	175	(70)
13. Companions in Hope: Spirit and Church in the Fourth Gospel	175	(14)
SHARON H. RINGE
14. Liberating and Anticipating the Future	189	(20)
JURGEN MOLTMANN
15. A Sacred Hope and Social Goal: Womanist Eschatology	209	(18)
JOAN M. MARTIN
16. Mujerista Narratives: Creating a New Heaven and a New Earth	227	(18)
ADA MARIA ISASI-DIAZ
Bibliography of Works by Letty M. Russell	245	(8)
Index	253