Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and LiberationGebara's succinct yet moving statement of her principles of ecofeminism shows how intertwined are the tarnished environment around her and the poverty that afflicts her neighbors. From her experiences with the Brazilian poor women's movement she develops a gritty urban ecofeminism and indeed articulates a whole worldview. She shows how the connections between Western thought, partriachal Christianity, and environmental destruction necessitate personal conversion to "an new relationship with the earth and with the entire cosmos." |
Contents
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Ecofeminist Epistemology | 48 |
The Human person from an Ecofeminist Perspective | 67 |
Beginning to Talk about the Human Person | 69 |
Questioning the Autonomy of the Human Person | 71 |
What Human Experience Is Described by Trinitarian Language? | 139 |
Religious Language and Its Crystallization in Institutions | 151 |
Reconstructing Trinitarian Meanings and Celebrating Life | 155 |
Jesus from an Ecofeminist Perspective | 173 |
The Road I Have Walked with Jesus | 175 |
Ecofeminist Challenges to Our Relationship with Jesus of Nazareth | 182 |
That All May Have Life The Way to a New Understanding of Religion | 193 |
The Destruction of Green Things of Diversity and of Our Symbols | 197 |
Its Value and Limitations | 76 |
A Tentative Construction | 82 |
God An Ecofeminist Approach to the Greatest of Mysteries | 101 |
Relatedness as a Language and an Experience of the Divine | 102 |
Issues Raised about Ecofeminist Discourse on God | 110 |
Models and Mystery | 132 |
My Hope | 133 |
Ecofeminism and the Trinity | 137 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation Biblical Reflections on Ministry |
| Author | Ivone Gebara |
| Publisher | Fortress Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1451409907, 9781451409901 |
| Length | 240 pages |
| Subjects | › › Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions Religion / Christian Theology / General Religion / Ethics Social Science / Sociology of Religion Social Science / Women's Studies |
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