This book features the memoirs of a leading church activist and religious thinker Dorothee Soelle, and has successive chapters dealing with today's religious challenges, such as, justice, hunger, Jewish-Christian relations, church hassles, and peace efforts.

Product Information

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Title: Against The Wind
By: Dorothee Soelle
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 160
Vendor: Augsburg Fortress
Publication Date: 1999

Dimensions: 8.5 X 5.5 (inches)
Weight: 2 pounds
ISBN: 0800630793
ISBN-13: 9780800630799
Stock No: WW30792

Publisher's Description

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Leading church activist and theologian Dorothee Soelle here recalls a lifetime of learning and activism in church, academy, and politics. Born in 1929 in Cologne, Germany, she was a young girl during the war years and the Holocaust. She studied classical philology and philosophy, then theology and literature. Her 1972 dissertation at the University of Cologne explored connections of literature and theology since the Enlightenment. Among the most widely read theologians of our time, she has pioneered in political, feminist, and liberation theologies.

Author Bio

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Martin Rumscheidtis an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada and retired professor of historical theology at the University of Windsor, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Charles University, Prague. He is the translator of Act and Being (1996)in Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, English edition, and cotranslator with the late Barbara Rumscheidt of Soelle"s Against the Wind (1999) and The Silent Cry.

Dorothee Soelle was Professor of Theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York City, for thirteen years. Among her many influential writings are Great Couples of the Bible (2005; 0-8006-3831-X), Theology for Skeptics (1994; 0-8006-2788-1), and The Silent Cry (2001; 0- 8006-3266-4). She died in 2003.