With Passion and Compassion: Third World Women Doing Theology: Reflections from the Women's Commission of the Ecumenical Association of Third World TheologiansVirginia Fabella, Mercy A. Oduyoye An outstanding collection of original essays, most published here for the first time, With Passion and Compassion provides the outlines of the common struggle of Third World women to forge their own, liberative theology. Protestant and Catholic, these women from Asia, Africa, and Latin America explore the question of what it means to be a Christian, and a woman, in the Third World. The contributors to With Passion and Compassion address traditional theological topics: christology, spirituality, the Bible. But they do so from the perspective that comes out of a struggle to overcome social and economic oppression. Their reflections constitute a powerful statement of faith as well as a challenge to existing structures and thinking, political and patriarchal. |
Contents
A Theological Community | 3 |
Women and Men Building Together the Church in Africa | 14 |
The ChristEvent from the Viewpoint of African Women | 22 |
The Christ for African Women | 35 |
Women in the Bible | 47 |
F inal Statements | 60 |
A Sinful Situation | 69 |
Mary John Mananzan Philippines and Sun Ai Park Korea | 77 |
A Common Methodology for Diverse Christologies? | 108 |
Asian Church Women Speak Manila | 118 |
LATIN AMERICA | 125 |
Womens Experience of God in Emerging Spirituality | 135 |
Womens Participation in the Church | 151 |
Feminist Theology as the Fruit of Passion and Compassion | 165 |
Womens Rereading of the Bible | 173 |
Latin American Conference on Theology from | 181 |
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