Making a way out of no way : a womanist theology /

"In her new book, Monica A. Coleman articulates the African American expression of "making a way out of no way" for today's context of globalization, religious pluralism, and sexual diversity. Drawing on womanist religious scholarship and process thought, Coleman describes the sy...

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Main Author: Coleman, Monica A., 1974- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 2008.
Series:Innovations (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Editors' Foreword / Katie Geneva Cannon and Anthony B. Pinn
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Making a Way Out of No Way : Womanist Theologians on Salvation
  • Womanist Theologians on Salvation
  • Making a Way Out of No Way
  • Postmodern Challenges
  • Postmodern Framework : Process Theology and Salvation
  • Process Theology as Constructive Postmodern Thought
  • Whitehead on Evil, Freedom, and Immortality
  • Resolution of Evil, Freedom, and Immortality
  • Resolution of Evil
  • Summary of Whitehead's Ideas
  • Postmodern Theological Framework
  • Womanist Challenges
  • Creative Transformation : Teaching and Healing Communities of God
  • Creative Transformation
  • Teaching and Healing
  • Communal Context
  • Learning from the Past : The Role of the Ancestors
  • Rememory
  • Spirit Possession
  • Conclusion
  • Communal Theology : Two Communities
  • Black Women's Science Fiction
  • Walking the way
  • Loving the Way
  • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.