Against the Wind : Memoir of a Radical Christian

by Solle, Dorothee; Rumscheidt, Barbara; Rumscheidt, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780800630799
• ISBN10: 0800630793
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

Leading church activist and theologian Dorothee Soelle here recalls a lifetime of learning and activism in church, academy, and politics. Born in 1929 in Cologne, Germany, she was a young girl during the war years and the Holocaust. She studied classical philology and philosophy, then theology and literature. Her 1972 dissertation at the University of Cologne explored connections of literature and theology since the Enlightenment. Among the most widely read theologians of our time, she has pioneered in political, feminist, and liberation theologies.

Table of Contents

A Tribute	vii
Robert McAfee Brown
Foreword	ix
Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Preface	xi
Little Match-Stick	1	(4)
The Diary of an Adolescent	5	(6)
Suspended in Nothingness	11	(3)
Waking Up	14	(4)
Choosing One's Teachers ...	18	(6)
...And Becoming a Teacher	24	(4)
Rudolf Bultmann	28	(4)
Stations of a Theological Biography	32	(5)
Political Evensong	37	(5)
Vietnam, Mon Amour	42	(5)
The Left---What Else?	47	(7)
To Love Bach in a World of Torture	54	(3)
New York, N.Y.	57	(8)
Half the Sky	65	(8)
The Pain of Birth	73	(7)
The Gift of Tears	80	(6)
A Twosome and in Tandem	86	(4)
An Umbrella Called Church	90	(6)
Mutuality	96	(2)
Hunger after Liberation	98	(8)
``We Can Already See the Lights''	106	(6)
The Disappeared	112	(4)
Movement for Peace	116	(6)
Against Apartheid	122	(5)
Next Year in Jerusalem	127	(7)
Sanctuary	134	(6)
Memories of Heinrich Boll	140	(4)
Being Leftist after the Big Change	144	(6)
Learning to Fly	150	(5)
The Death of My Mother	155	(3)
My Best Friend	158	(3)
Becoming Lighter	161	(4)
Don't Forget the Best	165	(4)
Chronology	169	(2)
Books in English	171