Author : Natalie K. Watson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Church
ISBN : 9780829815009
Watson encourages readers to reconsider the traditional models of the ways in which the church has spoken about itself in the context of the patriarchal theologies in light of the basic premise Fiorenza proposed in 1982: Women are church and have always been church. The author suggests that the history of the church be reread and rewritten on women's terms, with a new awareness of the lives and presence of women as essential aspects of what the church is all about.
Author : Natalie K. Watson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 39,18 MB
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606081608
Introducing Feminist Ecclesiology explores women's experiences of being church and reclaiming the church in order to rebuild it as a meaningful, open sacramental space where everybody's presence is celebrated. Natalie Watson proposes a creative and constructive dialog with existing theological approaches to the church, from different Christian traditions as well as more recent feminist theologians, and suggests the development of criteria that hear women's experiences of being church and reclaiming church into speech. The church is the embodied reality of all women children and men whose stories tell the story of the Triune God.
Author : Natalie Watson
Publisher : Continnuum-3pl
Page : pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2014-06-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781306846783
The church has always been a place of profound ambivalence for women. While the majority of those who attend church are women, women experience hierarchical exclusion and invisibility within its institutional structures. Throughout most of its history, women have not participated in the church's reflections on its own nature. And yet, feminist theologians claim that women are church and always have been church. This book explores women's experiences of being church and reclaiming the church in order to rebuild it as meaningful, open, sacramental space where everybody's presence is celebrated. Natalie Watson proposes a creative and constructive dialogue with existing theological approaches to the church, from different Christian traditions as well as more recent feminist theologians, and suggests the development of criteria which hear women's experiences of being church and reclaiming church into speech. The church is the embodied reality of all women, children and men whose stories tell the story of the Triune God. This book explores the ambivalence of women's experiences of being part of the church, yet often on men's terms, and seeks to establish a constructive and creative re-reading of ecclesiology from a feminist perspective.
Author : Mercy Oduyoye
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781841271439
This volume describes the context and methodology of Christian theology by Africans in the past two decades and provides brief descriptions of sample treatments of theological issues, such as creation, Christology, ecclesiology and eschatology. The aim of the book is to lead interested persons to the sources of African women's Christian theology. Throughout an effort has been made to illustrate how African culture and the multi-religious context has influenced Christian women's selection of theological issues. The importance of daily life to theology and the attempt to probe the spirituality of African Christian women is also evident in this introduction to African women's theology.
Author : Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830841903
What is the church? In this thoroughly revised and updated text, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen provides a wide-ranging survey of ecclesiology in the midst of rapid developments and new horizons. This unique primer not only orients readers to biblical, historical, and contemporary ecclesiologies but also highlights contextual and global perspectives.
Author : Anne M. Clifford
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 22,63 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1570752389
Introducing Feminist Theology responds to the questions "What is feminist theology?" and "Why is it important?" by considering the perspectives of women from around the globe who have very diverse life experience and relationships to God, Church and creation. Clifford introduces the major forms of feminist theology: "radical, " "reformist, " and "reconstructionist, " and highlights some of their specific characteristics.
Author : Sune Fahlgren
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498208649
The field of ecclesiology is rapidly expanding as new material, theories, methods, and approaches are being explored. This raises important and challenging questions concerning ecclesiology as an academic discipline. This book takes the reader into the trenches of ecclesiological research where the actual work of reading, writing, interpreting, and analyzing is being done. The authors reflect on fundamental questions concerning theory and method in ecclesiology in relation to concrete and actual research projects. Ecclesiology is dealt with as a systematic, empirical, historical, and liturgical discipline. Essays explore theology in South Africa as shaped by apartheid, liturgical theology, the diaconate in an ecumenical context, Free Church preachership, suburban ecclesial identity, medieval church practices, liturgical texts, church floor plans, and ecclesiology as a gendered discipline. Ecclesiology in the Trenches is a book for anyone who is interested and involved in ecclesiological research. It is also an example of a reflective approach to academic work. The book can be read as an overall argument for ecclesiology as a theological discipline with great potential for studying the church as a theologically defined empirical phenomenon.
Author : Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 30,37 MB
Release : 2002-10-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830826889
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen provides an up-to-date survey and analysis of the major ecclesiological traditions, the most important theologians, and a number of contextual approaches to both the unity and the diversity of ecclesiastic understandings and practices.
Author : Jennifer M. Buck
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,11 MB
Release : 2016-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498278843
Reframing the House continues the conversation of global theology as the future of the church. Jennifer Buck tells how women's voices from Africa, Asia, and Latin America serve as a critique of Evangelical theology of the church in the West. Three voices are highlights here from the Majority world: Mercy Oduyoye, a Ghanaian feminist theologian as representative of Africa; Kwok Pui-lan, a Chinese feminist theologian as representative of Asia; and Maria Pilar Aquino, a Mexican feminist theologian representative of the Americas. Working with these women along with Quaker, political, and feminist voices, this work presents a constructive global ecclesiology, exploring areas such as salvation, sin, peacemaking, and more.
Author : Letty M. Russell
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664250706
Ideas of the Christian church are changing, and Letty Russell envisions its future as partnership and sharing for all members around a common table of hospitality. Russell draws on her pastorate in Harlem, her classes in theology, and many ecumenical conversations to help the newly emerging church face the challenges of liberation for all people.
