Suffering and the Vulnerable Rule of God

A Feminist Epistemology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvKathleen McManus, OP,Op Kathleen McManus,Kathleen McManus, OP,OP Kathleen McManus

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“How is the reign of God revealed through the suffering experience of women and the marginalized?” That is the question Kathleen McManus seeks to answer. She employs the Lukan image of the “bent-over-woman-standing-up-straight” as the paradigm for all who are marginalized because of gender, sexual orientation, or race. Her viewpoint arises from encounters with individuals and communities who suffer exclusion, negation, diminishment, and violence in relation to a patriarchal church in a still-patriarchal world. Engaging Edward Schillebeeckx’s method of negative contrast experience, McManus explores what may be known in the space of encounter between the institutional church and these suffering “others” and draws out latent possibilities for mutual conversion and transformation. She reflects on the meaning of Schillebeeckx’s insight into “the superior power of God’s defenseless vulnerability” in creation and on the cross and asks what it might mean for the church to embody the vulnerable rule of God in its own structures, doctrines, symbols, and rituals.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-05-04
Mått160 x 227 x 25 mm
Vikt549 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor248
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781978701502

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Kathleen McManus, OP, currently teaches at Fordham University in New York, where she lives and works as an independent scholar. Previously she served as associate professor of theology and director of the M.A. in Pastoral Ministry Program at the University of Portland, and held the Rev. Robert J. Randall Distinguished Professorship at Providence College (Spring 2017). She serves on the international editorial team for the Bloomsbury/T&T Clark Series in Edward Schillebeeckx.

Part I: Overture to the Bent-Over-Woman-Standing-Up-Straight1. The Mysticism of Resistance: The Global Suffering of Women as an Ethical Imperative for the ChurchPart II: Experience and Revelation: Whose Experience Counts, and Who is Doing the Counting?Introduction to Part II2. Women Fermenting Impasse3. The Spiritual Suffering of LGBTQ+ People and People of Color4. Race, the Reign of God and the Catholic ChurchPart III: Sequela Jesu: Encountering the Vulnerable Rule of GodIntroduction to Part III5. Encounters on the Periphery: Revealing the Reign of God6. Creation, the Spirit, and the Church’s Ethical Imperative

In this prophetic, provocative, well-written book, a Catholic theologian who both knows the tradition well and listens attentively to voices from the margins provides a vision for the end of patriarchal domination in the Church. Kathleen McManus brings the wisdom of Edward Schilllebeekx's theology to investigate the challenges of gender, race and sex for the Christian community. Highly recommended.