Suffering and the Vulnerable Rule of God

Kathleen McManus, OP

doi:10.5771/9781978701519

Summary

“How is the reign of God revealed through the suffering experience of women and the marginalized?” That is the question Kathleen McManus seeks to answer. She employs the Lukan image of the “bent-over-woman-standing-up-straight” as the paradigm for all who are marginalized because of gender, sexual orientation, or race. Her viewpoint arises from encounters with individuals and communities who suffer exclusion, negation, diminishment, and violence in relation to a patriarchal church in a still-patriarchal world. Engaging Edward Schillebeeckx’s method of negative contrast experience, McManus explores what may be known in the space of encounter between the institutional church and these suffering “others” and draws out latent possibilities for mutual conversion and transformation. She reflects on the meaning of Schillebeeckx’s insight into “the superior power of God’s defenseless vulnerability” in creation and on the cross and asks what it might mean for the church to embody the vulnerable rule of God in its own structures, doctrines, symbols, and rituals.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-0150-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-0151-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 236
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Note No access
1. 1. An Encounter among Women in Lima No access
  2. Seeing the Reality, Describing the Situation of Oppression No access
  3. Analysis: Causes of Oppression No access
  4. The Mysticism of Resistance No access
  5. Signs of Resurrection No access
  6. Notes No access
1. 1. Note No access
2. 1. The Current Ecclesial Context No access
  2. “Really Bad Theology” and Women’s Critical Communities No access
  3. Women Suffering Impasse No access
  4. Experiences of Negative Contrast: Dark Light Illumining a Way Forward No access
  5. Negative Contrast and the Via Feminina No access
  6. Spiritual Suffering as Ferment in Impasse No access
  7. Critical Communities of Resistance and Hope No access
  8. Critical Women’s Communities, the Mysticism of Resistance, and Ecclesial Transformation No access
  9. Notes No access
3. 1. Notes No access
4. 1. Current U.S. Context No access
  2. Reflections on the Civil Rights Movement in Light of Vatican II No access
  3. Widening the Lens: Racial Terrorism and Immigration No access
  4. The Specificity of Black Suffering No access
  5. The Race/LGBTQ+ Nexus No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
1. 1. Notes No access
2. 1. The Reign of God No access
  2. “Encounter” as Theological Category No access
  3. Revelation: Experience, Faith, and Knowing No access
  4. Revelation-in-Resistance No access
  5. Epistemologies of the Marginalized No access
  6. The Body as Revelatory47 No access
  7. The System of Coordinates of Human Salvation No access
  8. Implications No access
  9. Sequela Jesu: Encountering the Vulnerable Rule of God No access
  10. Notes No access
3. 1. Salvation and Healing of the Threatened Humanum in the Context of Creation No access
  2. Challenges This Imperative Poses to the Church No access
  3. Fear of the “Other”/Fear of Equality No access
  4. Heresy in History No access
  5. In Search of Unity No access
  6. Turning to the Spirit No access
  7. Spirit in the Old Testament No access
  8. Spirit in the New Testament No access
  9. Spirit Neglected in the Church and in the World No access
  10. Spirit Unbound No access
  11. An Anthropology of Vulnerability as Lived Creation Faith No access
  12. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 211 - 228
Index No access Pages 229 - 234
About the Author No access Pages 235 - 236