Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective--a Theology

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Westminster John Knox Press, Jan 1, 1974 - Religion - 213 pages

Today, women are joining other oppressed groups in a search for liberation. Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective--A Theology

is an attempt to wrestle with this challenge by making a contribution to the Christian understanding of human liberation from the feminist perspective.

 

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Contents

FOREWORD by Elisabeth MoltmannWendel
11
INTRODUCTION
17
JOURNEY TOWARD FREEDOM
25
HUMAN LIBERATION AND THEOLOGY 50
50
SEARCH FOR A USABLE PAST
72
SALVATION AND CONSCIENTIZATION
104
Conscientization and Liberation
113
Conversion and Evangelism
121
INCARNATION AND HUMANIZATION
131
COMMUNION IN DIALOGUE
155
PROLOGUE
183
104
197
155
210
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About the author (1974)

Letty M. Russell was one of the world's foremost feminist theologians and a longtime member of the faculty of Yale Divinity School. She died on July 12, 2007, at age 77. She was one of the first women ordained in the United Presbyterian Church and served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of the Ascension in East Harlem for ten years. She joined the faculty of Yale Divinity School in 1974 and retired in 2001. She wrote and edited numerous books, including Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church, Dictionary of Feminist Theologies (with J. Shannon Clarkson), and Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective (with Kwok Pui Lan, Ada Maria Isasi Dias, and Katie Cannon).

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TitleHuman Liberation in a Feminist Perspective--a Theology
AuthorLetty M. Russell
Editionreprint
PublisherWestminster John Knox Press, 1974
ISBN0664249914, 9780664249915
Length213 pages
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