Two Reformers: Martin Luther and Mary Daly as Political Theologians - Softcover

Riswold, Caryn D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597528269 ISBN 13: 9781597528269

Publisher: Cascade Books, 2007

Synopsis

By them we have been carried away out of our own land, as into a Babylonian captivity, and despoiled of all our precious possessions Martin Luther, 1520 "Their goal is our deracination, which is 'detachment from one's background (as from homeland, customs, traditions)' Thus women and other Elemental creatures on this planet are rendered homeless, cut off from knowledge of our Race's customs and traditions" Mary Daly, 1984 What is this land, this world of which these two theologians are speaking? Why do the two statements above sound similar in the authors' longing for a true home, for our own land? And who is this "them" who carries us away and cuts us off? Could it be possible that Martin Luther and Mary Daly, different in almost every way, are saying something similar? Why do these key figures in the Christian theological tradition, who come from different times, places, and politics, engage in such a parallel task? How is this possible? This book examines a series of surprising parallels between two key reforming figures in the Christian theological tradition and suggests that the two are in fact engaged in the same task: political theology. Applying a new label to familiar theologians enables readers to see both of them as well as their reformations in a new light. The sixteenth-century Reformation and second wave feminism are viewed through the pioneering work of Luther and Daly here to further establish the political content and consequence of these theologians.

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About the Author

Caryn D. Riswold is a feminist theologian in the Lutheran tradition. She is the Mike and Marge McCoy Family Distinguished Chair Professor in Religion at Wartburg College. She earned her PhD and ThM from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, holds a master's degree from the Claremont School of Theology, and received her BA from Augustana College in her childhood hometown of Sioux Falls, SD.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597528269
• ISBN 13: 9781597528269
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216