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Opting for the margins : postmodernity and liberation in Christian theology / edited by Joerg Rieger.

Contributor(s): Rieger, Joerg
Material type: TextTextSeries: Reflection and theory in the study of religion: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003Description: xiii, 208 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 019516119X (cloth : alk. paper); 9780195161199 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Liberation theology | Postmodernism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Poor -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Gutiérrez, Gustavo, 1928-DDC classification: 230/.0464 LOC classification: BT83.57 | O66 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Opting for the margins in a postmodern world / Joerg Rieger -- Subalternity and advocacy as Kairos for theology / Mark Lewis Taylor -- On (re)centering the margins : a Euro-African perspective on the option for the poor / David N. Field -- Liberation theology in the twenty-first century / Kwok Pui-lan -- The situation and tasks of liberation theology today / Gustavo Gutiérrez -- Option for the poor and the exclusion of women : the challenges of postmodernism and feminism to liberation theology / Elina Vuola -- More than ever : the preferential option for the poor / Dwight N. Hopkins -- Knowing the God of the poor : the preferential option for the poor / Roberto S. Goizueta -- The work of love : feminist politics and the injunction to love / M. Gail Hamner -- Theology and the power of the margins in a postmodern world / Joerg Rieger.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 East BT83.57 O66 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182903118533

"Earlier versions of a number of the essays in this volume...were presented at a Research Symposium at Southern Methodist University, Perkins School of Theology, in honor of an honorary doctorate conferred upon Gustavo Gutiérrez in May 2000."--Acknowledgments

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Opting for the margins in a postmodern world / Joerg Rieger -- Subalternity and advocacy as Kairos for theology / Mark Lewis Taylor -- On (re)centering the margins : a Euro-African perspective on the option for the poor / David N. Field -- Liberation theology in the twenty-first century / Kwok Pui-lan -- The situation and tasks of liberation theology today / Gustavo Gutiérrez -- Option for the poor and the exclusion of women : the challenges of postmodernism and feminism to liberation theology / Elina Vuola -- More than ever : the preferential option for the poor / Dwight N. Hopkins -- Knowing the God of the poor : the preferential option for the poor / Roberto S. Goizueta -- The work of love : feminist politics and the injunction to love / M. Gail Hamner -- Theology and the power of the margins in a postmodern world / Joerg Rieger.

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