Creating Women's Theology

by Coleman, Monica A.; Howell, Nancy R.; Russell, Helene Tallon; Suchocki, Marjorie Hewitt

• ISBN13: 9781610971775
• ISBN10: 1610971779
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-22
• Publisher: Pickwick Pubns

Summary

Creating Women's Theology engages women's questions:

Author Biography

Monica A. Coleman is Associate Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions and Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology and Associate Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. She is the author of The Dinah Project: A Handbook for Congregational Response to Sexual Violence (2004) and Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology (2008). Nancy R. Howell is Professor of Theology and Philosophy of Religion and Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean at Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri. She is author of A Feminist Cosmology: Ecology, Solidarity, and Metaphysics (2000). Helene Tallon Russell is Associate Professor of Theology at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is author of Irigaray and Kierkegaard: On the Construction of the Self (2009).

Table of Contents

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
Introduction to the Movement
Introduction to Feminist Theology	p. 3
Introduction to Process Theology	p. 12
Women, Whitehead, and Hartshorne: What Characterizes Process-Relational Women's Worldviews	p. 20
Texts in Women's Process Relational Theologies
Experience	p. 31
from "Androgynous Life: A Feminist Appropriation of Process Thought"
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 43
Methodology/God's Presence	p. 46
from God, Christ, Church: A Practical Guide to Process Theology
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 58
Rejection of Dualism	p. 60
from Sexism and God-Talk: Toward a Feminist Theology and Gaia & God: An Ecofeminist Theology of Earth Healing
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 71
Sin	p. 74
from "The Sin of Hiding: A Feminist Critique of Reinhold Niebuhr's Account of the Sin of Pride"
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 82
Self and God: Separation, Sexism, and Self	p. 85
from From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism, and Self
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 98
Christology and Eros	p. 101
from Journeys by Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 110
Ecofeminism and Nature	p. 113
from The Body of God: An Ecological Theology
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 125
Holy Spirit and Womanism	p. 127
from Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 142
Theological Anthropology	p. 145
from "The Importance of Being Chimpanzee"
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 157
Creativity, Christology and Science: A Process of Composition and Improvisation	p. 160
from God, Creation, and All That Jazz: A Process of Composition and Improvisation
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 175
Jewish Feminism: Holocaust Jewish Theology, Feminism, and Process Philosophy	p. 178
from "Reconstructing Divine Power: Holocaust Jewish Theology, Feminism, and Process Philosophy"
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 191
Re-Imaging Goddess/God: Re-Imagining the Divine in the World	p. 194
from She Who Changes: Re-Imagining the Divine in the World
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 210
African Traditional Religions and Womanism	p. 213
from Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology
Commentary and Study Questions	p. 227
Contributors	p. 231
Chapter Sources	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 253
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