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TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION With a New Introduction A Feminist Theological - Reconstruction In Memory of Her Tenth Anniversary Edition Wherever the gospel is preached in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her. Mark 34:9 Elisabeth Schiissler Fiorenza IN MEMORY OF HER A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins Tenth Anniversary Edition CROSSROAD ■ NEW YORK The Crossroad Publishing Company 16 Penn Plaza, 481 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10001 Copyright e 1883 by Elisabeth SchOssler Florenza Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition Copyright O 1994 by Elisabeth SchQssier Florenza AB fights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stoaed In a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying recording or otherwise, without the written permission of The Crossroad Publishing Company. Printed in the United States ol America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data SchOaaler Fnrenza. Elisabeth, 1938- In memory of her : a feminist theological reconstruction of Christian origins / Elisabeth SchOssler Fiorenza.—10th Indudes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8245-1357-6 1 Christianity—Origin. 2. Women in Christianity— rtatory—Early church, ca 30-600 3 Bible N T.—Criticism, interpretation, etc. 4 Feminist theology. I. Title. BR129S36S 1994 94-3371 CIF For Christina Marlene Schiissler Fiorenza We are together, my child and I. Mother and child, yes, but sisters really, against whatever denies us all that we are. Alice Walker Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition! Remember the Struggle xiii Introduction/ In Search of Women's Heritage xliii Part I/SEEING-NAMING-RECONSTITUTING 1 1. Toward a Feminist Critical Hermeneutics 3 Models of Biblical Interpretation 4 The Woman's Bible 7 The Neo-Orthodox Model of Feminist Interpretation 14 The Feminist Sociology of Knowledge Model 21 A Feminist Critical Hermeneutics of Liberation 26 Notes 36 2. Toward a Feminist Critical Method 41 Androcentric Translations and Interpretations 43 Androcentric Selection of Historical Traditions 48 Patriarchal Canonization and Function 53 Androcentric Projection 56 Historical Imagination and Androcentric Texts 60 Notes 64 3. Toward a Feminist Model of Historical Reconstruction 68 Early Christian Beginnings: The Disinherited and the Marginal Consolidation and Institutionalization: Love Patriarchalism 76 Critical Evaluation 80 The Problem of Women's History 84 Notes 92 viii • IN MEMORY OF HER Part II/IN MEMORY OF HER: WOMEN'S HISTORY AS THE HISTORY OF THE DISC1PLESHIP OF EQUALS 97 4. The Jesus Movement as Renewal Movement Within Judaism 105 Women in Judaism Before 70 c.e.: Perspectives 106 The Dominant Ethos: The Kingdom and Holy Nation of Israel 110 The Basileia Vision of Jesus as the Praxis of Inclusive Wholeness 118 The Sophia-God of Jesus and the Discipleship of Women 130 Liberation from Patriarchal Structures and the Discipleship of Equals 140 Conclusion 151 Notes 154 5. The Early Christian Missionary Movement: Equality in the Power of the Spirit 160 "The Church in Her House" 162 Missionaries 168 The House Church 175 Theological Self-Understanding of the Missionary Movement 184 Conclusion 198 Notes 199 6. No Male and Female: Galatians 3:28— Alternative Vision and Pauline Modification 205 Analysis and Interpretation of Galatians 3:28 208 Pauline Modifications of Galatians 3:28 218 Marriage and Celibacy (1 Corinthians 7) 220 Women in the Worship of the Community (1 Corinthians 11-14) 226 Patriarchal Images and Metaphors 233 Conclusion 235 Notes 236 Part III/TRACING THE STRUGGLES: PATRIARCHY AND MINISTRY 243 7. Christian Mission and the Patriarchal Order of the Household 251 Colossians and the Household Code 251 1 Peter and the Household Code 260 Ephesians and the Household Code 266 The Gnostic-Patristic Trajectory 270 Notes 279 8. The Patriarchal Household of God and the Ekkltsia of Women 285 The Patriarchalization of Church and Ministry 288 The Teaching Authority of the Bishop 294 The Genderization of Ecclesial Office 309 Women as Paradigms of True Discipleship 315 The Gospel of Mark 316 The Gospel of John 323 Conclusion 334 Notes 334 EpilogueUoveard a Feminist Biblical Spirituality: The Ekklesia of Women 343 Index of Biblical References 353
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