Walk in the Ways of Wisdom Essay in Honor of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

by Matthews, Shelly; Johnson-DeBaufre, Melanie; Kittredge, Cynthia Briggs

• ISBN13: 9781563384066
• ISBN10: 156338406X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

When she published In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins in 1983, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza revolutionized the world of New Testament studies. She offered in that book a method for interperting early Christian history that recovers the role of women in pre-Pauline Christian communities. She then painted a portrait of the early Christian ekklesia of women as a point of departure for a feminist biblical spirituality. Later works engaged subjects such as hermeneutics, the book of Revelation, and rhetoric and ethics. The editors of this Festschrift all studied with Schussler Fiorenza at the Harvard Divinity School and collected these essays to honor the leading feminist New Testament scholar in the world. Contributors include Harvey Cox, Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Ronald F. Thiemann, Francois Bovon, Ellen Bradshaw Aitken, Karen L. King, John R. Lanci, Barbara Rossing, Ann Graham Brock, Steven J. Friesen, Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Parker, Bernadette J.Brooten, Denise Kimber Buell, Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Laura S. Muench-Nasrallah, Allen Dwight Callahan, Dieter Georgi, Richard Horsley, Cynthia Briggs-Kittredge, Shelly Matthews, and Demetrius Williams.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Walk in the Ways of Wisdom
Shelly Matthews, Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, and Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre	1	(16)
Part I TOWARD A CONTEMPORARY DISCIPLESHIP OF EQUALS
1. From Interpretation to Rhetoric: The Feminist Challenge to Systematic Theology Francis
Schüssler Fiorenza	17	(29)
2. New Christendom or Liberated World? Theological Alternatives for the Twenty-first Century
Harvey Cox	46	(12)
3. To Teach without a Net: Toward a Pedagogy of Imagination and Collaboration
John R. Lanci	58	(16)
4. (Re)claiming Oikoumené? Empire, Ecumenism, and the Discipleship of Equals
Barbara R. Rossing	74	(14)
5. Faith and the Public Intellectual
Ronald F. Thiemann	88	(21)
Part 2 IN MEMORY OF WO/MEN
6. Women Priestesses in the Apocryphal Acts of Philip
François Bovon	109	(13)
7. The Identity of the Blessed Mary, Representative of Wisdom in Pistis Sophia
Ann Graham Brock	122	(14)
8. High Priestesses of Asia and Emancipatory Interpretation
Steven J. Friesen	136	(17)
Part 3 RHETORIC AND ETHIC: THE PRACTICE OF INTERPRETATION
9. The Landscape of Promise in the Apocalypse of Paul
Ellen Bradshaw Aitken	153	(13)
10. Enemy and Ally: Contending with John's Anti-Judaism
Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker	166	(15)
11. Nature, Law, and Custom in Augustine's On the Good of Marriage
Bernadette J. Brooten	181	(13)
12. "Sell What You Have and Give to the Poor": A Feminist Interpretation of Clement of Alexandria's Who Is the Rich Person Who Is Saved?
Denise Kimber Buell	194	(20)
13. Bridging the Gap to "This Generation": A Feminist-Critical Reading of the Rhetoric of Q 7:31-35
Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre	214	(20)
14. The Rise of the Soul: Justice and Transcendence in the Gospel of
Mary Karen L. King	234	(10)
15. "Now I Know in Part": Historiography and Epistemology in Early Christian Debates about Prophecy
Laura S. Nasrallah	244	(25)
Part 4 RHETORIC AND ETHIC: THE POLITICS OF MEANING
16. Revelation 18: Notes on Effective History and the State of Colombia
Allen Dwight Callahan	269	(17)
17. The Gnosis Issue in Contemporary European Scholarship: A Problem of Psychopathology, Politics, or Human Rights?
Dieter Georgi	286	(11)
18. Feminist Scholarship and Postcolonial Criticism: Subverting Imperial Discourse and Reclaiming Submerged Histories
Richard A. Horsley	297	(21)
19. Rethinking Authorship in the Letters of Paul: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza's Model of Pauline Theology
Cynthia Briggs Kittredge	318	(16)
20. Ethical Issues in Reconstructing Intrareligious Violence in Antiquity: The Gospel of Matthew as a Test Case
Shelly Matthews	334	(17)
21. African American Churches and Galatians 3:28: A Brief Assessment of the Appropriation of an Egalitarian Paradigm
Demetrius Williams	351	(20)
Bibliography of the Writings of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza	371	(16)
Contributors	387