Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church

Name: Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church
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ISBN: 9780664250706

By: Letty M. Russell

Westminster John Knox Press / 1993 / Paperback

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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. Dr. Russell draws on her interracial urban pastorate, her classes in theology, and many ecumencial conversations to help the newly emerging church face the challenges of liberation for all people.

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Title: Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church
By: Letty M. Russell
Format: Paperback
Vendor: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication Date: 1993

Weight: 14 ounces
ISBN: 066425070X
ISBN-13: 9780664250706
Stock No: WW425070X

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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.

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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).