Suffering and the Vulnerable Rule of God - A Feminist Epistemology

Kathleen McManus employs Edward Schillebeeckx’s method of negative contrast experience to explore how the global suffering of the marginalized, particularly women, reveals God’s vulnerable rule, posing an ethical imperative for the church.

List of contents

Part I: Overture to the Bent-Over-Woman-Standing-Up-Straight
1. The Mysticism of Resistance: The Global Suffering of Women as an Ethical Imperative for the Church
Part II: Experience and Revelation: Whose Experience Counts, and Who is Doing the Counting?
Introduction to Part II
2. Women Fermenting Impasse
3. The Spiritual Suffering of LGBTQ+ People and People of Color
4. Race, the Reign of God and the Catholic Church
Part III: Sequela Jesu: Encountering the Vulnerable Rule of God
Introduction to Part III
5. Encounters on the Periphery: Revealing the Reign of God
6. Creation, the Spirit, and the Church's Ethical Imperative

About the author

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.

Summary

Kathleen McManus employs Edward Schillebeeckx’s method of negative contrast experience to explore how the global suffering of the marginalized, particularly women, reveals God’s vulnerable rule, posing an ethical imperative for the church.

Product details

• Authors: Op Mcmanus, OP Kathleen McManus, Kathleen McManus Op, Kathleen McManus OP
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781978701502
• ISBN: 978-1-978701-50-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Religious ethics, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships, Christian aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships, RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics & Moral Teaching