Lift Every Voice

by Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks

• ISBN13: 9781570751639
• ISBN10: 1570751633
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-11-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

This updated edition of the classroom favorite confirms its place as the most important systematic theology reader available with a liberationist perspective. Global in its outlook, Lift Every Voice incorporates the voices of North American men and women: Native Americans, Anglos, Hispanics, Blacks, and Asians. Part 1, on theological method, includes a new chapter by Ada Maria Isasi Diaz on love of neighbor in the twenty-first century. Part 2 centers on God and has a new chapter by Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite. Part 3 includes Rosemary Radford Ruether's classic essay on eschatology and feminism. Andy Smith contributes an exciting new essay, "The Spirituality-Liberation Praxis of Native Women" to Part 4, which also includes Mary Potter Engel's much-quoted essay on "Evil, Sin, and Violation of the Vulnerable." Part 5 opens with Mary D. Pellauer's and Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite's classic essay on grace and healing from the perspective of the movement to end violence against women. Part 5 also includes pieces by Carter Heywood and Jacquelyn Grant on christology, and concludes with Sharon Ringe and Kwok Pui Lan's essays on reading the Bible. The careful organization and choice of essays makes Lift Every Voice a valuable book for a wide variety of courses. Its breadth and timeliness makes it possible to show the liberationist implications of the classic theological curriculum.

Table of Contents

Contributors	ix
Introduction: Making the Connections among Liberation Theologies around the World	1	(18)
Mary Potter Engel
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
PART ONE THEOLOGICAL METHOD: COMMITMENT AND CONSTRUCTION	19	(78)
1. What Is Faith?: A Black South African Perspective	24	(6)
Bonganjalo Goba
2. Solidarity: Love of Neighbor in the 21st Century	30	(10)
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
3. Revisioning Minjung Theology: The Method of the Minjung	40	(13)
Young-chan Ro
4. Walking in Balance: The Spirituality/Liberation Praxis of Native Women	53	(16)
Andrea Smith
5. The Old Testament of Native America	69	(13)
Steve Charleston
6. Context and Revelation with One Stroke of an Asian Brush	82	(15)
C.S. Song
PART TWO GOD	97	(30)
7. God Is Black	101	(14)
James H. Cone
8. On the Trinity	115	(12)
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
PART THREE ESCHATOLOGY	127	(16)
9. Eschatology and Feminism	129	(14)
Rosemary Radford Ruether
PART FOUR CREATING AND GOVERNING GRACE	143	(30)
10. Creation Motifs in the Search for a Vital Space: A Latin American Perspective	146	(13)
Vitor Westhelle
11. Evil, Sin, and Violation of the Vulnerable	159	(14)
Mary Potter Engel
PART FIVE HEALING, LIBERATING, AND SANCTIFYING GRACE	173	(20)
12. Conversation on Grace and Healing: Perspective from the Movement to End Violence against Women	177	(16)
Mary D. Pellauer
Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite
Christology	193	(28)
13. Jesus of Nazareth/Christ of Faith: Foundations of a Reactive Christology	197	(10)
Carter Heyward
14. Subjectification as a Requirement for Christological Construction	207	(14)
Jacquelyn Grant
Church, Ministry, and Spirituality	221	(44)
15. In Search of a Circular Community: A Possible Shape for the Church in Japan	224	(13)
Robert M. Fukada
16. Rituals of Healing: Ministry with and on Behalf of Gay and Lesbian People	237	(14)
Anita C. Hill
Leo Treadway
17. The Empowering Spirit of Religion	251	(14)
Mercy Amba Oduyoye
The Scriptures	265	(33)
18. The Bible and Mujerista Theology	267	(9)
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
19. Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World	276	(13)
Kwok Pui-lan
20. Reading from Context to Context: Contributions of a Feminist Hermeneutic to Theologies of Liberation	289	(9)
Sharon H. Ringe
Conclusion: Directions for the Future	298	(5)
Endnotes	303	(26)
Index	329