The Future of Partnership

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Westminster John Knox Press, Jan 1, 1979 - Religion - 200 pages

How should men and women and God relate to one another? Letty Russell's answer is "partnership," understood in new ways as a relationship rooted in the life story of Jesus. Instead of concentrating on individuals as single entities, she develops the theme of the individual in partnership--both with God and with Others. She deals with the theological foundations of partnership and such practical concerns as lifestyles, human sexuality, education, church community life, and ministry. Her book speaks to the interests of churchwomen, feminists, students of theology, and the many who have studied her other books.

 

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Contents

INTRODUCTION
17
2 GODS UTOPIA
44
3 GODS SELFPRESENTATION
61
PARTNERSHIP AND HIERARCHY
67
CLUES FROM GODS SELFPRESENTATION
73
PART II
79
MARRIAGE AND ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLES
88
SEXUALITY AND PARTNERSHIP
95
6 FLIGHT FROM MINISTRY
121
MINISTRY AND PARTNERSHIP
132
7 LOVING THE QUESTIONS
140
LIVING THE QUESTIONS
147
PART III
157
FUTURE AND PARTNERSHIP
164
NOTES
177
GLOSSARY
197

5 ADVENT SHOCK AND THE CHURCH
101
FREEDOM IN WITNESSING COMMUNITY
107
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About the author (1979)

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).

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TitleThe Future of Partnership
AuthorLetty M. Russell
PublisherWestminster John Knox Press, 1979
ISBN0664242405, 9780664242404
Length200 pages
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Religion / Christian Theology / Anthropology
Religion / Christian Theology / General
  
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