Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective

by Russell, Letty M.

• ISBN13: 9780664249915
• ISBN10: 0664249914
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1974-09-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

Today, women are joining other oppressed groups in a search for liberation.Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective--A Theology is an attempt to wrestle with this challenge by making a contribution to the Christian understanding of human liberation from the feminist perspective.

Table of Contents

Foreword	11	(6)
Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel
Jurgen Moltmann
Introduction	17	(8)
Journey Toward Freedom	25	(25)
Groaning for Freedom	27	(6)
Solidarity of Groaning	28	(1)
Oppression of Women	28	(2)
Freedom to Serve	30	(3)
Discovery of Freedom	33	(8)
Children of God	33	(2)
Ferment of Freedom	35	(3)
Critical Discernment	38	(3)
Horizon of Freedom	41	(9)
Hope in God's Future	41	(1)
Already on Their Way	42	(3)
Anticipating God's Future	45	(5)
Human Liberation and Theology	50	(22)
Common Methodology	52	(4)
Genitive Theologies	52	(1)
Inductive Approach	53	(2)
Theology as Praxis	55	(1)
Common Perspectives	56	(7)
Biblical Promise	56	(2)
World as History	58	(3)
Salvation as a Social Event	61	(2)
Common Themes	63	(9)
Humanization	63	(3)
Conscientization	66	(1)
Dialogue and Community	67	(5)
Search for a Usable Past	72	(32)
Usable Future	73	(7)
Structural Element of Human Existence	74	(2)
Tradition as Mission	76	(2)
Tradition in Liberation Theology	78	(2)
Usable History	80	(13)
Meaning in History	82	(3)
Invisible Histories	85	(4)
Myth and History	89	(4)
Usable Language	93	(11)
Generic Nonsense	93	(3)
The Freedom of God	96	(1)
Forgotten Names of God	97	(7)
Salvation and Conscientization	104	(27)
Salvation as Liberation	105	(8)
Shalom: Liberation and Blessing	106	(3)
Salvation Today	109	(4)
Conscientization and Liberation	113	(8)
Process of Conscientization	114	(3)
Dialectic of Liberation	117	(4)
Conversion and Evangelism	121	(10)
Conscientization and Conversion	122	(3)
Praxis and Evangelism	125	(6)
Incarnation and Humanization	131	(24)
Search for True Humanity	133	(7)
Restoration of Created Humanity	133	(2)
Representation of New Humanity	135	(5)
Sisterhood on the Way to Servanthood	140	(5)
Servanthood, Not Subordination	140	(2)
Sisterhood and Servanthood	142	(3)
Partnership and Humanization	145	(10)
Female and Feminine	147	(5)
Not Lonesome, but Twosome	152	(3)
Communion In Dialogue	155	(28)
Open Ecclesiology	157	(6)
Open to the World	158	(2)
Open to Others	160	(2)
Open to the Future	162	(1)
Dialogue: Impossible Possibility	163	(9)
Forms of Dialogue	164	(3)
Oppressor and Oppressed	167	(5)
Participation in Ministry	172	(11)
Problem of Ministry	173	(5)
Models of Ministry	178	(5)
Prologue	183	(4)
Notes	187