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Jesus : Miriam's child, Sophia's prophet : critical issues in feminist Christology
- Title
- Jesus : Miriam's child, Sophia's prophet : critical issues in feminist Christology / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.
- Author
- Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, 1938-
- Publication
- New York : Continuum, 1995, ©1994.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | BT205 .S324 1995 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 262 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- Fiorenza charts the rise and fall into "historical amnesia" of the liberating movement gathered around Jesus as the prophet and messenger of Divine Sophia, or Woman Wisdom, the all-powerful female figure in early Jewish Scriptures and theology. While teachings about Women Wisdom permeate the texture of the Christian ("New") Testament, they were quickly clothed in what the author calls kyriocentric (ruling-male) language. Not simply a work of historical reconstruction, this is a work of constructive feminist theology, showing how the historically unrealized possibilities of Woman Wisdom can offer the vision of a different world and a different church. By assessing various Jesus traditions and interpretations as to whether they can engender liberating visions for today, the book seeks to challenge and transform masculine Christian identity formations and exclusivist theological frameworks toward the basileia vision of justice and well-being for all.--From publisher description
- Subject
- Jesus Christ > Person and offices
- Jesus Christ
- Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Women in Christianity > History > Early church, ca. 30-600
- Bible
- 30-600
- Wisdom (Biblical personification)
- Feminist theology
- 11.46 study and interpretation of the New Testament
- Christology
- Women in Christianity > Early church
- Christologie
- Feministische Theologie
- Christologie
- Feministische theologie
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-262).
- Contents
- pt. 1 invitation of wisdom -- Oratory of euphemia and the Ekklesia of Wo/men -- And Mary went into the hill country -- pt. 2. Children of wisdom -- Power of naming: Jesus, women and Christian anti-Judaism -- Execution of Jesus and the theology of the cross -- pt. 3. Power of wisdom -- Prophets of Sophia -- In her image and likeness: women of wisdom.
- ISBN
- 0826408583
- 9780826408587
- LCCN
- 94035571
- OCLC
- ocm34296963
- 34296963
- SCSB-2051127
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library