Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza

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Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (born 1938) is a leading feminist theologian. 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 . Her work focuses on questions of biblical, theological, and feminist epistemology, hermeneutics, rhetoric, the politics of religious/scriptural interpretation, and on issues of theological education, radical equality, and democracy.

She is the co-founder and editor of the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and is a co-editor of Concilium. She was the first woman elected as president of the Society of Biblical Literature and has served on the editorial boards of many biblical journals and societies. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. 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.

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In Memory of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins (1984)
Revelation: Vision of a Just World (1991)
But She Said: Feminist Practices of Biblical Interpretation (1993)
Discipleship of Equals (1993)
Jesus: Miriam's Child, Sophia's Prophet (1994)
Bread Not Stone: The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation (1995)
The Power of Naming (1996)
Sharing Her Word: Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Context (1999)
Rhetoric and Ethic: The Politics of Biblical Studies (1999)
Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation (2000)
Wisdom Ways: Introducing Feminist Biblical Interpretation (2001)
Grenzen überschreiten: Der theoretische Anspruch feministischer Theologie (2004)