Wisdom ways : introducing feminist biblical interpretation / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schüssler Fiorenza, Elisabeth, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--Feminist criticism.

Bible.

Feminist criticism.

Physical Description:

x, 229 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2001]

Contents:

Introduction

Invitation to Wisdom Ways 1

Wisdom's Spiraling Dance 7

Creating the Circle to Dance 12

Chapter I Mapping Wisdom's Terrain 21

Wisdom's Province 22

The Radical Democratic Learning Space of Wisdom 28

Learning the Ways of Wisdom 32

The Emancipatory Wisdom Paradigm of Biblical Interpretation 37

Chapter II Roadblocks in Wisdom's Ways 53

Chapter III Wo/men's Movements

Wisdom Struggles 77

The Public Radical Democratic Space of Wisdom's Movements 79

Historical Roots of Liberation Struggles 84

An Emancipatory Grassroots Democratic Ethos 87

Feminist Biblical Studies as a Wisdom Movement for Transformation 89

Feminist Biblical Interpretation as a Process of Conscientization 93

Chapter IV Wisdom Power: A Feminist Social Analytic 102

Primary Categories of Analysis 107

Dualistic Categories of Analysis 112

A Complex Systemic Analysis 117

Feminist Reconstructive Frameworks 124

Chapter V Wisdom Steps: Feminist Methods of Interpretation 135

Corrective Methods of Interpretation 137

Historical Reconstructive Methods 143

Imaginative Interpretive Methods 148

Methods of Conscientization 151

Chapter VI Wisdom's Dance: Hermeneutical Moves and Turns 165

A Hermeneutics of Experience 169

A Hermeneutics of Domination and Social Location 172

A Hermeneutics of Suspicion 175

A Hermeneutics of Critical Evaluation 177

A Hermeneutics of Creative Imagination 179

A Hermeneutics of Re-Membering and Reconstruction 183

A Hermeneutics of Transformative Action for Change 186

Continuing in wisdom/Wisdom's Ways of Justice 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-220) and index.

ISBN:

1570753830

OCLC:

47297599