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Changing Horizons highlights the ways, in which Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza's work constructs a critical feminist theory and praxis of liberation, in relation to the biblical text and its legacy, and in relation to the theological and ecclesial setting of today.
Schüssler Fiorenza attempts to free both, biblical studies and theology from disciplinary constraints and assumptions that have allowed them to acquiesce and even perpetuate forms of oppression-from racism and poverty to colonialism and gender equality.
While Schussler Fiorenza's feminist critical approach begins with the experience of women, that experience is, appropriated through the lens of critical theory and a critical understanding of social and religious oppressions. It is, further, political in its aim, to dethrone kyriarchal structures and foment genuinely egalitarian community in church and society.
Schüssler Fiorenza attempts to free both, biblical studies and theology from disciplinary constraints and assumptions that have allowed them to acquiesce and even perpetuate forms of oppression-from racism and poverty to colonialism and gender equality.
While Schussler Fiorenza's feminist critical approach begins with the experience of women, that experience is, appropriated through the lens of critical theory and a critical understanding of social and religious oppressions. It is, further, political in its aim, to dethrone kyriarchal structures and foment genuinely egalitarian community in church and society.