Church in the Round

by Russell, Letty M.

• ISBN13: 9780664250706
• ISBN10: 066425070X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-05-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

Ideas of the Christian church are changing, and Letty Russell envisions its future as partnership and sharing for all members around a common table of hospitality. Russell draws on her pastorate in Harlem, her classes in theology, and many ecumenical conversations to help the newly emerging church face the challenges of liberation for all people.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 11
Round Table Connection	p. 17
Round Table Talk	p. 20
Connecting to the Margin	p. 21
Faith, feminism, and the church	p. 22
Table principle	p. 24
Rereading from the margin	p. 27
The Spiral Connection	p. 29
Feminist methodology	p. 30
Rereading from the context	p. 32
Going around the spiral	p. 34
Talking Back to Tradition	p. 35
Feminist understanding of tradition	p. 36
Community of faith and struggle	p. 39
Feminist understanding of the church	p. 42
Leadership in the Round	p. 46
Order and Organization	p. 47
Order and change	p. 48
Organization and ordination	p. 50
Quest for feminist leadership	p. 54
Overturning the Masters' Tables	p. 58
Iconoclasm of patriarchy	p. 59
Women in leadership	p. 60
House churches and household codes	p. 61
Round Table Leadership	p. 63
Community of the Spirit	p. 64
Authority in community	p. 65
Clues to feminist leadership	p. 67
Kitchen Table Solidarity	p. 75
Communities of Faith and Struggle	p. 78
A Time of Kairos	p. 80
Signs of jubilee	p. 81
Confessing churches	p. 82
Confessional churches	p. 83
God's Mission and the Church	p. 87
Mission of God	p. 88
Missionary structures	p. 90
Liberation structures	p. 92
Liberation Communities	p. 96
Renewed Christian communities	p. 97
Basic Christian communities	p. 101
Feminist Christian communities	p. 104
Justice and the Church	p. 112
Place of Salvation	p. 114
Justice and salvation	p. 114
No salvation outside the poor	p. 119
Double sin of the church	p. 123
Sign of Christ's Presence	p. 127
Household of God	p. 128
Signs of the church	p. 131
Justice connection	p. 135
Word Preached and Celebrated	p. 137
Word purely preached	p. 137
Sacraments rightly administered	p. 139
Table fenced with justice	p. 145
Welcome Table Partnership	p. 149
Community of Hospitality	p. 151
White Racism: A Church-Dividing Issue	p. 153
Divided self and divided ministry	p. 153
Forms of structural sin	p. 156
Caught in the contradictions	p. 158
Contradictions of Divine Election	p. 162
Caught with his compassion down	p. 162
Rereading the story of the chosen people	p. 164
Bounded community	p. 166
Hospitality and the Church	p. 168
Need for identity	p. 169
Diversity and hospitality	p. 172
Hospitality on the margin	p. 175
Spirituality of Connection	p. 182
Sister Choice	p. 183
Choosing to be a woman	p. 183
Choosing to be whole	p. 187
Kitchen table spirituality	p. 189
Sister Outsider	p. 192
Finding the margin	p. 192
Rejecting the contradictions	p. 194
Welcome table spirituality	p. 196
Sister Circle	p. 198
Choosing a tradition	p. 199
Opening the circle	p. 201
Round table partnership	p. 205
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 241
Index of Scripture References	p. 245
Index of Subjects	p. 249
Index of Names	p. 251
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