Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (born 1938) is a feminist theologian. She received her Theologicum (MDiv), Lic. Theol., University of Würzburg, Thoel.D. from the University of Munster, Germany. She identifies as Catholic and her work is generally in the context of Christianity, although much of her work has broader applicability. She is currently the Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School.

She is the co-founder and editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and is a co-editor of Concilium.^[1] She was the first woman elected as president of the Society of Biblical Literature and she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.^[1] Her husband, also a chaired professor at Harvard Divinity School, is Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, a Catholic theologian.

In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins is one of her earliest and best-known books. This work, which argued for the retrieval of the overlooked contributions of women in the early Christian church, set a high standard for historical rigor in feminist theology. Additionally, she has published widely in journals and anthologies.

In 1984 she was one of 97 theologians and religious persons who signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion, calling for religious pluralism and discussion within the Catholic Church regarding the Church's position on abortion.^[2]

Works

• Der vergessene Partner: Grundlagen, Tatsachen und Möglichkeiten der beruflichen Mitarbeit der Frau in der Heilssorge der Kirche (1964)
• Priester für Gott: Studien zum Herrschafts- und Priestermotiv in der Apokalypse. NTA NF 7(l972)
• The Apocalypse(l976)
• Hebrews, James, 1 and 2 Peter, Jude, Revelation. Proclamation Commentaries together with Fuller, Sloyan, Krodel, Danker (l977 /l981)
• Invitation to the Book of Revelation: A Commentary on the Apocalypse with Complete Text from the Jerusalem Bible (l981)
• Lent. Proclamation II: Aids for Interpreting the Lessons of the Church Year. Series B, [together with Urban T. Holmes] (l981)
• In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (1983)
• Bread Not Stone: The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation (1985)
• Revelation: Vision of a Just World (1991)
• But She Said: Feminist Practices of Biblical Interpretation (1992)
• Discipleship of Equals: A Critical Feminist Ekklesialogy Of Liberation (1993)
• Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist Christology (1994)
• The Power of Naming (1996)
• Sharing Her Word: Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Context (1998)
• Rhetoric and Ethic: The Politics of Biblical Studies (1999)
• Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation (2000)
• Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation (2001)
• The Power of the Word: Scripture and the Rhetoric of Empire (2007)

See also

• Kyriarchy

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Harvard Divinity School faculty page
2. ^ Keller, Rosemary Skinner; Ruether, Rosemary Radford; Cantlon, Marie (2006). Encyclopedia of women and religion in North America. 3. Indiana University Press. pp. 1104–1106. ISBN 0253346886.