Research Catalog

Title

Dorothee Soelle : mystic and rebel : the biography / Renate Wind ; translated and edited by Nancy Lukens and Martin Rumscheidt.

Author

Wind, Renate, 1950-

Publication

Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Lukens, Nancy
• Rumscheidt, Martin

Description

xvii, 203 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Renate Wind has composed a well-researched and searching biography of Dorothee Soelle (1929-2003), who became a true religious provocateur and one of the most prolific and widely read theologians of the postwar period. Born in Germany and educated at the University of Cologne, Soelle turned from literary studies to theology, concentrating on rethinking Christian convictions in light of World War II and the Holocaust. A poet and activist as well as theologian, after her arrival at Union Theological Seminary in 1974, where she assumed the post previously held by Paul Tillich, Soelle became a leading voice for the liberation of women and against militarism, especially the Vietnam War. Her person, work, travels, and the times themselves combined to make her a pioneer and leader in the most exciting developments of the period: political theology, feminist theology, and liberation theology. Among her influential works were Christ the Representative (1967), Suffering (1975), To Work and to Love (1984), Theology for Skeptics (1994), and The Silent Cry (2001). Wind's short and insightful biography is informed by extensive interviews with Soelle's friends and family, especially her husband, Fulbert Steffensky, by use of the family's archives, and by Wind's extensive knowledge of contemporary theology, political history, and the contemporary church"--Publisher description.

Uniform Title

Dorothee Sölle. English

Alternative Title

Dorothee Sölle.

Subject

• Sölle, Dorothee
• Theologians > Germany > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biographie.

Note

• Translated from the German.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Dream me, God -- Compañera Dorothee Soelle presente! -- In the darkness of a German romantic youth -- Suspended in nothingness -- In search of a new homeland -- An essay in theology after the death of God -- Encounters in Jerusalem -- Political evensong -- On n'arrête pas le soleil: "you can't stop the sun" -- Suffering and passion -- Journey -- Leaving my mother's home and my father's country -- Learning to fly -- Between worlds -- The earth belongs to God -- The God of liberation -- Mysticism and resistance -- Dying for light -- Embracing God.

ISBN

• 9780800698089 (alk. paper)
• 0800698088 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012005307

OCLC

• 738360350
• SCSB-10609396

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library