Our Cry for Life

by Aquino, Maria Pilar; Livingstone, Dinah

• ISBN13: 9780883448953
• ISBN10: 0883448955
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
The Irruption of History into Women's Life and Consciousness	p. 9
The Way of Speaking about God	p. 9
The Primacy of Practice in Liberation Theology	p. 11
From a Despoiled and Dominated Continent: A Brief History	p. 13
The Emergence of Women as Active Participants in History and Theology	p. 18
Latin American Women's Discovery of Causality	p. 26
Changes in Ways of Understanding from the Perspective of Women	p. 27
The Political Character of Biology in the Subordination of Women	p. 30
The Creation of Social Gender	p. 33
The Three-dimensional Character of the Struggle	p. 37
The Centrality of Daily Life	p. 38
Women in the Church of the Poor	p. 42
The Conquistadors' Mission and Logic	p. 43
Women's Emergence as Actors/Subjects in the Church	p. 48
Women Are Giving the Church a New Face	p. 52
The Understanding of Faith from the Perspective of Women	p. 62
Women and Liberation Theology	p. 64
Women Doing Theology: Word in Context	p. 67
Theology Done by Women and Traditional Theology	p. 71
Methodological Premises for Theology from the Perspective of Women	p. 81
An Egalitarian Anthropological Perspective	p. 82
The Word as Affirmation of Full Humanity	p. 90
Sexuality as a Source of Liberation	p. 97
The Logic of Life in Women's Strength	p. 101
Women's Contribution to Theology in Latin America	p. 109
The Theological Method	p. 109
The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and Daring	p. 121
The God of Life and the Rachamin of the Trinity	p. 130
Jesus Christ: Life and Liberation in a Discipleship of Equals	p. 138
Spirituality: A New Way of Acting in the Power of the Spirit	p. 149
The Church - Baptismal Community of Equal Discipleship	p. 160
Mary, Prophetic and Liberating Woman	p. 171
Other Themes in Latin American Feminist Theology	p. 178
Women and the Theme of Popular Devotion	p. 178
The Right to Integrity, Goodness, and Beauty	p. 181
Women's Liberation and Christian Ethics	p. 186
Conclusions	p. 191
Notes	p. 199
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 251
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