Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being (Innovations, African American Religious Thought) - Copeland, M. Shawn Review & Synopsis

Synopsis Being human is neither abstract nor hypothetical. It is concrete, visceral, and embodied in the everyday experience and relationships that determine who we are. In that case, argues distinguished theologian Shawn Copeland, we have much to learn from the embodied experience of black women who, for centuries, have borne in their bodies the identities and pathologies of those in power. With rare insight and conviction, Copeland demonstrates how black women's experience and oppression cast a completely different light on our theological theorems and pious platitudes and reveal them as a kind of mental colonization that still operates powerfully in our economic and political configurations today. Further, Copeland argues, race and embodiment and relations of power not only reframe theological anthropology but also our notions of discipleship, church, and Christ as well. In fact, she argues, our postmodern situation - marked decidedly by the realities of race, conflict, the remains of colonizing myths, and the health of bodies - affords an opportunity to be human (and to be the body of Christ) with new clarity and effect. Review M. Shawn Copeland is Associate Professor of Theology, Boston College, and Past President of the Catholic Theological Society of America. From 1994 to 2003 Copeland was Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Marquette University and from 1989 to 1994, she taught at Yale University Divinity School. She serves as adjunct Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans. Enfleshing Freedom * Harvests insights of black women's historical experience for theology * Rethinks what it means to be human in light of African American experience * Harvests insights of black women's historical experience for theology * Rethinks what it means to be human in light of African American experience" Encyclopedia of Christian Education This reference work tells the unique history of Christian education and shows how Christian educators pioneered such institutions and reforms as universal literacy, home schooling, Sunday schools, women's education, graded schools, compulsory education of the deaf and blind, and kindergarten. The Social Contract Theorists: Critical Essays on Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Lanham, MD : Rowman ... Newberg , Andrew , MD , and Mark Robert Waldman . 2010. How God Changes Your Brain : Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist ." 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This thoughtful and respectful look at the lives of adolescent girls seeks to equip faithful Christians in the church to use their prophetic voices to call out the sins of racism, sexism, homophobia, and sizeism in the experiences of these strong and resilient girls. In Theological Perspectives on Christian Formation: A Reader on Theology and Christian Education, edited by Jeff Astley, ... M . Shawn . Enfleshing Freedom : Body , Race , and Being ... Innovations : African American Religious Thought ." Reimagining The Moral Life ... SJ, Virtues for Ordinary Christians (Lanham, MD: Sheed & Ward, 1996); William C . Mattison III , Introducing Moral Theology : True Happiness and the Virtues (Grand Rapids: Brazos, 2008). 4Lisa Sowle Cahill, Global Justice, Christology, ..." Reading Minjung Theology in the Twenty-First Century This edited volume brings Ahn Byung-Mu's minjung theology into dialogue with twenty-first-century readers. Ahn Byung-Mu was one of the pioneers of Korean minjung theology. The centerpiece of his minjung theology is focused on the Greek word ochlos, understood as the divested, marginalized, powerless people. Part 1 introduces readers to his life and theological legacy. Part 2 includes four important writings of Ahn Byung-Mu: "Jesus and Minjung in the Gospel of Mark," "Minjung Theology in the Gospel of Mark," "The Transmitters of Jesus Event Tradition," and "Minjok, Minjung, and Church." Part 3 contains a collection of articles from international scholars who evaluate and engage Ahn's ochlos/minjung theology in their own fields and formulate critical readings of minjung theology. Responses include postcolonial, black theology, and feminist perspectives. Prophetic Religious Voices of African American Women, edited by Marcia Y. Riggs, 183–88. ... Copeland , M . Shawn . Enfleshing Freedom : Body , Race , and Being . Innovations . Minne-apolis: Fortress, 2010. Dalman, Gustaf." 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Compassionate justice, radical hospitality, creative liberation, and deep listening emerge as more than ethical values for Farley; they are expressions of erotic faith, a praxis of faithfulness born of divine desire. These writings explore transformative perspectives and practices that have the capacity to help us recover and author our identity as the “god-bearers” we are. Erotic faith embodies the love-seeking persistence of divine faithfulness necessary to transform us from within; it meets the truth of human harm, vulnerability, and suffering by offering a complex, struggling, unscripted creativity capable of remaking us, and our world, until the beloved community is whole. Copeland , M . Shawn . Enfleshing Freedom : Body , Race , and Being . Innovations , African American Religious Thought . Minneapolis: Fortress, 2010. Farley, Edward. Practicing Gospel: Unconventional Thoughts on the Church's Ministry. 1st ed." 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