Changing horizons
Subtitle: explorations in feminist interpretation
By: Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780800698072; 9781451426410
Subjects: Feminist criticism; Bible; Exegese; Feministische Theologie; Hermeneutics
Description: "Changing Horizons is the second of two volumes highlighting the ways in which Elisabeth Schùssler Fiorenza's work constructs a critical feminist theory and praxis of liberation, in relation to the biblical text and its legacy, and in relation to the theological and ecclesial setting of today. In these essays collected from her extraordinary career, Schùssler Fiorenza attempts to free both biblical studies and theology from disciplinary constraints and assumptions that have allowed them to acquiesce and even perpetuate forms of oppression-from racism and poverty to colonialism and gender equality. While Schùssler Fiorenza's feminist critical approach begins with the experience of women, that experience is appropriated through the lens of critical theory and a critical understanding of social and religious oppressions. It is, further, political in its aim to dethrone kyriarchal structures and foment genuinely egalitarian community in church and society"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Charting critical feminist biblical hermeneutics. Interpreting patriarchal traditions; title: Toward a Christian feminist biblical hermeneutics: biblical interpretation and liberation theology; title: Feminist interpretation and New Testament studies; title: For the sake of the truth dwelling among us: emerging issues in feminist biblical interpretation; title: The will to choose or to reject: continuing our critical work; title: Feminist hermeneutics; title: Theology as rhetoric, ethics, and critique of ideology; title: Disciplinary matters: a critical rhetoric and ethic of inquiry; title: The power of empire and the rhetoric of Scripture; title: Part II. Practicing feminist biblical interpretation. To set the record straight: biblical women's studies; title: Biblical interpretation and critical commitment: the Gospel of John; title: The politics of otherness: biblical interpretation as a critical praxis for liberation; title: "Waiting at table": a critical feminist the*logical reflection on Diakonia; title: The Twelve and the discipleship of equals; title: Resisting violence, engendering Easter; title: Liberation, unity, and equality in community: New Testament case studies; title: Bread/rice of wisdom: interpretation for liberation; title: Wisdom's "dance": practicing a critical feminist interpretation; title: Claiming the word: charting global feminist biblical studies.