Lift Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies from the Underside - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1570751633 ISBN 13: 9781570751639

Casa editrice: Orbis Books, 1998

Riassunto

Offers a variety of voices from marginalized groups in the United States and their approaches to God, christology, scripture, community, and faith.This updated edition 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 men and women, Native Americans, Anglos, Hispanics, Blacks, Africans, and Asians. 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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Mary Lane Potter (the writer formerly known as Mary Potter Engel) is obsessed with the body-mind-spirit tangle, whether she’s writing theology, fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry. Her essays and stories have appeared (or are about to appear) in Feminist Studies in Religion, SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Women Studies Quarterly, Beloit Fiction Journal, North American Review, Tampa Review, Tiferet, SUFI Journal, The Other Journal, Spiritus, Leaping Clear, Chaleur, and others. She’s been awarded writing residencies at MacDowell, Hedgebrook, and Caldera, as well as a Washington State Arts Commission/Artist Trust Fellowship. To read more, visit: http://members.authorsguild.net/marylapotter/.

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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 men and women, Native Americans, Anglos, Hispanics, Blacks, Africans, 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. It 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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Orbis Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1570751633
• ISBN 13: 9781570751639
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 339
• Redattore: Thistlethwaite Susan B., Engel Mary Potter
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile