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Enfleshing Theology

Embodiment, Discipleship, and Politics in the Work of M. Shawn Copeland

«This collection of essays on Shawn Copeland’s work is magnificent. Copeland is a must-read author in Black theology, and this group of essays demonstrates her importance and influence in and beyond Black Catholic theologies. This volume honors Copeland and it also honors its editors and authors. Magnificent!»

Orlando O. Espin, Ph.D., professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies at University of Sa

Enfleshing Theology honors and engages the life work of M. Shawn Copeland, whose theology is groundbreaking and prophetic, traversing the fields of Catholic Theology, Black Theology, Womanist Thought, and Semiotics. Les mer

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Enfleshing Theology honors and engages the life work of M. Shawn Copeland, whose theology is groundbreaking and prophetic, traversing the fields of Catholic Theology, Black Theology, Womanist Thought, and Semiotics. The book opens with a brief introduction, and then moves to an interview with Copeland, which connects her theology to her life stories. The conversation with Copeland also provides a backdrop to the seventeen essays that follow, extending Copeland’s theological worldview. The contributions are divided according to the following sections: embodiment, discipleship, and politics. The essays in the section entitled "Engaging Embodiment" critically reflect on the importance of embodiment in Christian theology and contemporary culture. Following Copeland’s lead, authors in this section theorize and theologize the body, particularly (but not limited to) Black women’s bodies, as a locus theologicus that reveals, mediates, and shapes the splendor and suffering reality of human existence. The next section, entitled "Engaging Discipleship," focuses on the concrete challenges of following Jesus in today’s world. The essays included in this section reflect on Copeland’s focus on Jesus’ particularity in terms of his solidarity with and for others. Discipleship is about modeling and mentoring, so scholars in this section also comment on Copeland’s contribution to teaching and pedagogy. The last section, entitled "Engaging the Political," interrogates the political implications of the theological. It is noteworthy that there are two trajectories of the political here, one is Copeland’s development of political theology through the lens of Canadian Jesuit theologian, Bernard Lonergan. The other trajectory focuses on the work of theology in contemporary art and politics. These three sections are fluid and overlap with one another. Several of the articles on embodiment speak to questions of solidarity and a few of the essays on discipleship clearly present as political. The ways in which each of the contributions in this volume overlap with each other attests to the complex nature of doing constructive theology today, and even more how Copeland’s work is at the forefront of that multi-layered, polyvalent, intersectional theological work.

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Forlag
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
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Innbundet
Språk
Engelsk
ISBN
9781978704053
Utgivelsesår
2018
Format
23 x 16 cm

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«This collection of essays on Shawn Copeland’s work is magnificent. Copeland is a must-read author in Black theology, and this group of essays demonstrates her importance and influence in and beyond Black Catholic theologies. This volume honors Copeland and it also honors its editors and authors. Magnificent!»

Orlando O. Espin, Ph.D., professor, Department of Theology and Religious Studies at University of Sa

«A stunning compendium of insights! With great originality and verve the essays wrestle, take deep dives, and run with Copeland’s intuitions into new territories. More than simple tribute, this excellent, heartwarming book shows the far-reaching influence of an extraordinary theologian whose thought benefits all of humanity, those without dignity most of all.»

Elizabeth A. Johnson, Distinguished Professor of Theology, Fordham University

«This fine collection of diverse voices captures the essence of Copeland’s clarity, creativity, and commitment to a theology that cares for creation. This village of scholars captures the broad terrain of Copeland’s theology as truth-telling and invites the reader into critical deep engagement with it. We are the better for it if we accept their invitation.»

Emilie M. Townes, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African Ameri

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