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By them we have been carried away out of our own land, as into a Babylonian captivity, and despoiled of all our precious possessions. Martin Luther, 1520Their goal is our deracination, which is 'detachment from one's background (as from homeland, customs, traditions).' Thus women and other Elemental creatures on this planet are rendered homeless, cut off from knowledge of our Race's customs and traditions. Mary Daly, 1984What is this land, this world of which these two theologians are speaking? Why do the two statements above sound similar in the authors' longing for a true home, for our own land? And who is this them who carries us away and cuts us off? Could it be possible that Martin Luther and Mary Daly, different in almost every way, are saying something similar? Why do these key figures in the Christian theological tradition, who come from different times, places, and politics, engage in such a parallel task? How is this possible? This book examines a series of surprising parallels between two key reforming figures in the Christian theological tradition and suggests that the two are in fact engaged in the same task: political theology. Applying a new label to familiar theologians enables readers to see both of them as well as their reformations in a new light. The sixteenth-century Reformation and second wave feminism are viewed through the pioneering work of Luther and Daly here to further establish the political content and consequence of these theologians.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: An Unlikely Pair
- Part One: Disaffected Catholic Youth
- Chapter 1: Martin Luther: Eisleben to Wittenberg and Back Again
- Chapter 2: Mary Daly: Schenectady to Rome, Boston, and Beyond
- Chapter 3: Martin and Mary: Parallels, Differences, and Inversions
- Part Two: Substantive Connections
- Chapter 4: Theological Anthropology: Freedom in Captivity and for Community
- Chapter 5: Institutional Authority: Corruption and Confusion
- Chapter 6: Snools and Snot: Reforming Rhetoric and Wicked Words
- Part Three: Interpretation and Analysis
- Chapter 7: Legacies and Limitations
- Chapter 8: Two Reformers as Political Theologians
- Chapter 9: Conclusion: Was It All Worth It?
- Bibliography