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Enfleshing Theology
Embodiment, Discipleship, and Politics in the Work of M. Shawn Copeland
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2018
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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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2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0405-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-9787-0406-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
284
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
An Interview with M. Shawn Copeland No access
1 “A Body of Broken Bones” No access
2 “Today a Black [Wo]man Was Lynched” No access
3 Mapping Methodological Directions for Womanist Scholarship No access
4 Learning to Enflesh Freedom No access
5 Black Eucharist No access
6 Black Lives Matter as Enfleshed Theology No access
7 “Enacted Discipleship” as Christian Anthropology No access
8 Standing at the Foot of the Cross No access
9 Enfleshing Freedom No access
10 Zora Neale Hurston’s Moses, Man of the Mountain and Biblical Studies No access
11 To Be a Thinking Margin No access
12 The Significance and Singularity of M. Shawn Copeland’s Methodology No access
13 God’s Image Revealed in Authentic Living No access
14 White Supremacy and Christian Theology No access
15 The Dark Night(s) of Malcolm X No access
16 Disturbing the Aesthetics of Race No access
17 Drawing Close to Bodily Pain and Grace No access
Selected Bibliography of M. Shawn Copeland No access Pages 271 - 276
