Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective--A Theology

by Letty M. Russell (Editor)

Overview

Today, women are joining other oppressed groups in a search for liberation. Human Liberation in a Feminist Perspective—A Theology is an attempt to wrestle with this challenge by making a contribution to the Christian understanding of human liberation from the feminist perspective.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664249915
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	09/01/1974
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Letty M. Russell was one of the world's foremost feminist theologians and a longtime member of the faculty of Yale Divinity School. She died on July 12, 2007, at age 77. She was one of the first women ordained in the United Presbyterian Church and served as pastor of the Presbyterian Church of the Ascension in East Harlem for ten years. She joined the faculty of Yale Divinity School in 1974 and retired in 2001. She wrote and edited numerous books, including Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church, Dictionary of Feminist Theologies (with J. Shannon Clarkson),and Inheriting Our Mothers' Gardens: Feminist Theology in Third World Perspective (with Kwok Pui Lan, Ada Maria Isasi Dias, and Katie Cannon).