Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth : Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

by Segovia, Fernando F.

• ISBN13: 9781570755040
• ISBN10: 1570755043
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

This celebration of the brilliant work of Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza begins with an in-depth interview conducted by Fernando Segovia in which Professor Schussler Fiorenza reminisces about her life -- from her childhood during the Second World War, through university studies and her developing awareness of the need for theological contributions to be made by women. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Looking Back, Looking Around, Looking Ahead
An Interview with Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Fernando F. Segovia	1	(32)
Part I Hermeneutics of Liberation
1. Recovering the Goddess
Reflections on God-Talk
J. Severino Croatto	33	(21)
2. Rahab Says Hello to Judith
A Decolonizing Feminist Reading
Musa W. Dube	54	(19)
3. Tango con pasión
Memory as the Central Element of a Hermeneutic of Space
Hedwig Meyer-Wilmes	73	(17)
4. Subverting Disciplines
The Possibilities and Limitations of Postcolonial Theory for New Testament Studies
Richard A. Horsley	90	(16)
5. Liberation Hermeneutics
Revisiting the Foundations in Latin America
Fernando F. Segovia	106	(27)
6. The End of Biblical Studies?
R.S. Sugirtharajah	133	(8)
7. 1 Timothy
What a Problem!
Elsa Tamez	141	(16)
8. The Pouring Out of Healing Ointment
Rereading Mark 14:3-9
Elaine Wainwright	157	(22)
9. In Search of a Usable Past
Reorienting Biblical Studies
Vincent Wimbush	179	(20)
10. Father Image of God and Inclusive Language
A Reflection in Japan
Satoko Yamaguchi	199	(28)
PART II Theologies of Liberation
11. Calling the Oppressors to Account
God and Black Suffering
James H. Cone	227	(10)
12. Feminist Theology
A Key for Women's Citizenship in the Church
Wanda Deifelt	237	(12)
13. A Feminist Theology of Liberation
A Latin American Perspective with a View toward the Future
Ivone Gebara	249	(20)
14. "Be of Age"
The Woman as Mediator of Religion in Judaism
Eveline Goodman-Thau	269	(18)
15. The Theology of Liberation
Perspectives and Tasks
Gustavo Gutiérrez	287	(13)
16. Engendering Christ
Kwok Pui-Ian	300	(14)
17. Meister Eckhart
The Power of Inner Liberation
Dietmar Mieth	314	(20)
18. The Catholic Theology of Human Rights and the Covenant Theology of Human Responsibility
Aloysius Pieris	334	(17)
19. New Ways of Speaking about the Cross
A New Basis for Christian Identity
Regula Strobel	351	(17)
20. Biblical Teachings and the Hard Realities of Life
Jean Zaru	368	(17)
PART III Feminist Studies in Religion
21. The Dynamics of Globalization and the University
Toward a Radical Democratic-Emancipatory Transformation
Maria PilarAquino	385	(22)
22. People's Movements, the Strength of Wisdom, and the Twisted Path of Civilization
Gabriele Dietrich	407	(15)
23. Remembrance and Suspicion Versus the Masters' Rhetoric of War
Regula Grünenfelder	422	(7)
24. "Let My Gender Go!" Jewish Textual Activism
Bonna Devora Haberman	429	(14)
25. Dialectic of Hope
The Feminist Liberation Theology of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza as a Feminist Critical Theory
Marsha Aileen Hewitt	443	(16)
26. Feminist Catholic Theology and Practice
From Kyriarchy to Discipleship of Equals
Mary E. Hunt	459	(14)
27. On Naming Justice
The Spiritual and Political Connection in Violence against Asian Immigrant Women
Nantawan Boonprasat Lewis	473	(14)
28. Critical Theology and Jewish Sexual Ethics
Judith Plaskow	487	(11)
29. Feminist Ritual Strategies
The Ekklesia Gynaikõn at Work
Marjorie Procter-Smith	498
30. (En)gendering Jewish Philosophy
Susan Shapiro	516	(21)
Contributors	537