The Power of the Word

Book

Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Description

Introduction: The rhetoric of empire -- Empire studies as a new field in biblical studies -- A radical democratic ethos -- A critical political feminist hermeneutics -- Situating the argument of this book -- The power of Scripture and the rhetoric of empire -- Empire as the context of Scripture today -- Reshaping biblical thelogical studies -- Empire and ekklesia -- A radical democratic imagination : the ekklsia of women -- Debating Paul in the ekklsia of women -- Toward a critical feminist decolonizing interpretation -- Postcolonial criticism and feminist criticism -- A decolonizing interpretation of the book of Revelation -- Empire and the rhetoric of subordination -- The ethos of kyriarchy : intersecting discourses of domination -- A detoxifying/decolonizing reading of 1 Peter -- The rhetoric of empire and G*G-talk : decolonizing the divine -- Feminist critique of androcentric G*D language -- Kyriocentric G*D language : the language of empire -- Transforming biblical studies -- The discipline of biblical studies -- Transforming biblical studies. viii, 280 p. ;23 cm.

Book Details

Author

Sch{uml}ussler Fiorenza, Elisabeth

Place Published

City

Minneapolis, MN

Date Published

2007

Publication Subjects

Bible--Influence. Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc. Bible--Feminist criticism.

Call No.

BS538.7 .S38 2007

ISBN

9780800638337 (alk. paper), 0800638344 (alk. paper), 9780800638344 (alk. paper), 0800638336 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2007031009

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280).