Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza ( born April 17, 1938 in Tschanad, Romania) is a Catholic feminist theologian.

Life

After the war, she came with her family over Austria to Bavaria. Growing up in the Lower Franconian Because Bach, she studied from 1958 to 1962 at the University of Würzburg Catholic theology. In 1970, she earned his doctorate at the University of Münster with a thesis on domination and priests motif in the Apocalypse of John. The work was created at the suggestion of former Würzburg New Testament scholar Rudolf Schnackenburgallee.

Since 1970 Schüssler Fiorenza teaches in the United States. First stop was the University of Notre Dame. In 1984, she signed the Campaign A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion. From 1984 to 1988 she was the owner of the Talbot Professor of New Testament at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge (Massachusetts ). Since 1988 she has held the Krister Stendahl - professorship at Harvard University. She is also a guest professor and Foundation among others in Tubingen, Berlin and Heidelberg.

Theology, history and biblical interpretation

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza is a pioneer of feminist biblical hermeneutics, they first formulated in detail in her book In Memory of Her ( 1983). Feminist Theology defines it as a "critical theology of liberation."

In the Historical Jesus research, she advocates to disclose their own research interests, rather than science positivist reconstruction about real words and actions to identify unspoken Jesus. In this case, Jesus would reductionist separated from the Jesus movement and other emancipatory Jewish movements. The manhood of Jesus may be objectified as fact that have fundamental significance for the faith (in conjunction with the expectation of the historical Jesus research to justify Christian identity ). Your own interest, she describes, for example:

" Rather, Christian feminist research must devise early Christianity and early Judaism in a way that they can make visible women and marginalized men as central agents who have determined the Christian and Jewish origins. For this purpose, a reassessment of the theological framework concepts is required, have produced the Christian anti-Judaism as the left hand of Christology and divine manhood as her right hand. "

So they tried to overcome hierarchical, authoritarian and patriarchal notions in theology. Patriarchy she fully understands, " so that it is not simply the domination of men over women said, but refers to a complex social pyramid graduated domination and subordination ." For this, they introduced the term " Kyriarchie ", which expresses what men dominate their subordinates - such as Emperor, Lord, master, father, husband - and that women are the center of liberation theology, namely " living on the lowest level of the kyriarchalen pyramid ".

Works

German

  • The forgotten partner. Dusseldorf 1964.
  • Priests for God. Münster (Westfalen), Univ., Diss 1969 / 70th
  • In Memory of Her ... A feminist theological reconstruction of Christian origins. Munich -Mainz 1988.
  • Bread instead of stones. The challenge of a feminist interpretation of the Bible. Fribourg / Switzerland in 1991.
  • Frauenkirche - an exodus community. Lucerne 1990.
  • The Book of Revelation. Stuttgart 1994.
  • Jesus - Miriam's child, Sophia's prophet. Gütersloh 1997.
  • Exceed limits. The theoretical claim of feminist theology. Münster 2004 ( Google books).
  • Just is the Word of Wisdom. Historical and political contexts of feminist biblical interpretation. Lucerne 2008.
  • Wisdom ways. An introduction to feminist biblical interpretation. Stuttgart 2005.
  • Rhetoric and ethics. On the Politics of Biblical Studies. Lucerne 2013.

English

  • Aspects of Religious Propaganda in Judaism and Early Christianity. Notre Dame, Indianapolis 1976.
  • The Apocalypse. Chicago 1976.
  • Invitation to the Book of Revelation. Garden City in 1981.
  • In Memory of Her. A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins. Crossroad, New York 1983, ISBN 0-8245-0667-7.
  • Bread Not Stone. Boston 1984.
  • Theological and Historical Reconstruction Criteria. Berkeley in 1987.
  • Revelation. Vision of a Just World. Minneapolis in 1991.
  • But She Said. Boston 1992.
  • Discipleship of Equals. New York 1993.
  • Jesus - Miriam 's Child. New York 1994.
  • Searching the scriptures. New York 1994/95.
  • The Power of Naming. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York 1996.
  • Sharing Her Word. Edinburgh, inter alia, In 1998.
  • Rhetoric and Ethic. Minneapolis 1999.
  • Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation. New York 2000.
  • Wisdom Ways. Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 2001.

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza literature on

  • Elisabeth Gössmann, Meeting of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her. A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins, New York 1983: Year THRV 80, 1984, page 294-298.
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