Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza quotes

“Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.”
-- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Source : 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.”
-- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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“Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.”
-- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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“all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.”
-- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

Source : 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.”
-- Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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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.”

“A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.”

“History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth as a whole.”

“Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.”

“Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.”

“I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.”

“There is no such thing as neutrality where the gospel is concerned.”

“I was injured because everyone around me was observing neutrality and keeping silent. After all, they saw that I wasn't ready to perform that element. But they kept quiet.”

“If net neutrality goes away, it will fundamentally change everything about the Internet.”

“Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.”