A Feminist Introduction To Paul
Publisher: Chalice Press
Published: April 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780827210370
Subjects: N.T.; Religion - Commentaries / Reference; Feminist theology; Christianity - Theology - Feminine; Religion; Reference; N.T; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - New Testament; Christian Theology - Feminine; Bible.; Theology; Christian Theology - General; Bible; Epistles of Paul
Description: Sandra Hack Polaski introduces readers to the letters and world of Paul, encouraging a critical appreciation of Paul and his writings that does not require a choice between commitment to the scriptures and integrity as a modern feminist. In conversation with the leading interpreters of Paul and considering possible responses to Paul -- conformist, resistant, rejectionist, and transformational -- Polaski forges her own theory of how to interpret Paul. She reads, emphasizes, and reinterprets overlooked, neglected, misintegrated, or differently interpreted Pauline texts, making visible the invisible and challenging the accepted readings. Polaski uncovers both the ideologies behind the text and the ideologies the text seeks to suppress. She traces the trajectories toward which the texts point even if Paul did not fully follow the trajectories to their logical end. Such a program leads Polaski to find God's New Creation as the operative center of Pauline thought.