Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church / Edition 1

by Letty M. Russell

Overview

Ideas of the Christian church are changing, and Letty Russell envisions its future as partnership and sharing for all members around a common table of hospitality. Russell draws on her pastorate in Harlem, her classes in theology, and many ecumenical conversations to help the newly emerging church face the challenges of liberation for all people.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780664250706
Publisher:	Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date:	01/01/1993
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(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).

Editorial Reviews

Russell, a Presbyterian clergyman and professor of theology at Yale Divinity School, uses the metaphor of three tables--the Round Table of connection, the Kitchen Table of solidarity, and the Welcome Table of partnership--to set forth her vision of a church that is not alienating to women, nonwhites, or the laity. She envisions a church in which all work for justice and freedom and in which church leaders ``make all persons welcome as they gather around God's table of New Creation.'' She especially criticizes the way ``right'' administration of sacraments ``has fenced the table by requiring that only those ordained and authorized in a particular pattern officiate,'' and she calls for a spirituality that unites all individuals. Highly recommended for all seminary libraries and for academic and public libraries as well.

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