Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church

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Letty M. Russell
Westminster John Knox Press, Jan 1, 1993 - Religion - 253 pages

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.

 

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Contents

Faith feminism and the church
19
Rereading from the margin
27
Talking Back to Tradition
35
Leadership in the Round
43
Organization and ordination
50
Overturning the Masters Tables
58
Kitchen Table Solidarity 75 1984
76
Gods Mission and the Church
87
Word Preached and Celebrated
137
Community of Hospitality
151
Contradictions of Divine Election
162
Hospitality and the Church
168
Spirituality of Connection
182
Sister Outsider
192
Sister Circle
198
Notes
209

Liberation Communities
96
Justice and the Church
112
Sign of Christs Presence
127
Bibliography
241
Index of Subjects
249
Copyright

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About the author (1993)

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).

Bibliographic information

TitleChurch in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church
Women and religion. Theology
EditorLetty M. Russell
Editionillustrated
PublisherWestminster John Knox Press, 1993
ISBN066425070X, 9780664250706
Length253 pages
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