Changing Horizons: Explorations in Feminist Interpretation

by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Overview

Changing Horizons is the second of two volumes highlighting the ways in which Elisabeth Schüssler 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.

Schüssler 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 Schussler 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451426410
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	01/25/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza is the Krister Stendhal Professor at Harvard Divinity School, a founding editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, past president of the Society of Biblical Literature, and author of many important and influential works, among them In Memory of Her (1984), Bread Not Stone (1985), Jesus: Miriam’s Child, Sophia’s Prophet (1995), and The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire (2007). She is editor of Searching the Scriptures (two volumes, 1993, 1994), a feminist introduction and commentary