Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza quotes
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“Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.”
-- Elisabeth Schussler FiorenzaSource : Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (2009). “Democratizing Biblical Studies: Toward an Emancipatory Educational Space”, p.14, Westminster John Knox Press
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“Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it.”
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“Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.”
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“all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.”
-- Elisabeth Schussler FiorenzaSource : Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (1984). “Bread Not Stone: The Challenge of Feminist Biblical Interpretation”, Beacon Press (MA)
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“The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation.”
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“Our understanding of early Christian beginnings is usually monolithic. It is much determined by the Acts of the Apostles, which pictures a straightforward development from the primitive community in Jerusalem founded on Pentecost to the world-wide mission of Paul climaxing with his arrival in Rome, the political centre of the Greco-Roman world. The Pauline epistles are understood not so much as historical sources reflecting a much more multifaceted early Christian situation fraught with tensions but as theological treatises expounding and defending the doctrine of justification by faith.”
-- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza
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“The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.”
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“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”
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“There is no such thing as neutrality where the gospel is concerned.”
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“If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.”
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