{"id":1824,"date":"2015-09-13T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2016-12-01T10:56:47","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T15:56:47","slug":"read-this-book-september-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/2015\/09\/read-this-book-september-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"READ THIS BOOK – September 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our September recommendation is offered by Trudy Hawkins Stringer, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Ministry and Associate Director of Field Education.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Estuaries and Hope Abundant<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Humidity veiled the air and clung to me as I walked along the Cape Fear River. Mistaking the gold trimmed silver gray mental signage as an historical marker, I approached with languid interest.\u00a0 \u201cEstuary\u201d it read.\u00a0 Far from describing some long ago battle or settlement, this marker spoke of vibrant life just inches away from where I stood.<\/p>\n

As it flows into the Atlantic Ocean at Wilmington, North Carolina, the Cape Fear River forms an estuary.\u00a0 From a long ago biology class, you may remember that estuaries are environments in which fresh and salt waters meet and mingle.\u00a0 Differences meet and mingle to form some of the most productive ecosystems on earth.\u00a0 The amount and diversity of organic matter produced exceeds that of a comparably sized forest.[i]<\/a><\/p>\n

Hope Abundant:\u00a0 Third World and Indigenous Women\u2019s Theology<\/em> edited by Kwok Pui-lan invites the reader into a different kind of estuary, a theological estuary where our theological lens can meet and mingle with others from across the globe.\u00a0 Each chapter in Hope Abundant <\/em>is explicitly contextual in its approach, challenging us to recognize our own contextuality.<\/p>\n

Mercy Amba Oduyoye from Ghana reflects on Jesus Christ from the perspective of \u201cthe faith of African Christian women in the African context\u201d[ii]<\/a>, while Lee Miena Skye offers another view in \u201cAustralian Aboriginal Women\u2019s Christologies.\u201d[iii]<\/a><\/p>\n

In \u201cDalit Women and the Bible\u201d Monica Jyotsna Melanchton argues that \u201ctheologizing and reading of scripture by Dalit women starts from the experience of denied humanity.\u201d[iv]<\/a> In \u201cThe Signs of Orpah\u201d Cherokee writer Laura E. Donaldson challenges us to read \u201cthe Book of Ruth through Native Eyes.\u201d[v]<\/a><\/p>\n

Looking at \u201cBody, Sexuality, and Spirituality\u201d, theologians from China, Brazil, the Philippines, and, Malawi engage issues of HIV\/AIDS and mission, marriage, women\u2019s rights and ecclesial structures, and connections between spirituality and justice.[vi]<\/a><\/p>\n

Hope Abundant<\/em> is a rich resource for moving from our local waters to global estuaries of theological thought and practice.<\/p>\n

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[i]<\/a> NOAH\u2019s National Ocean Service Education:\u00a0 Estuaries<\/p>\n

http:\/\/oceanservice.noaa.gov\/education\/tutorial_estuaries\/welcome.html<\/a> (August 5, 2015)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[ii]<\/a> Mercy Amba Oduyoye, \u201cJesus Christ\u201d, , Hope Abundant:\u00a0 Third World and Indigenous Women\u2019s Theology<\/em>, ed. Kwok Pui-lan (Maryknoll, New York:\u00a0 Orbis Books, 2010),167.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[iii]<\/a> Lee Miena Skye, \u201cAustralian Aboriginal Women\u2019s Theologies\u201d, Hope Abundant:\u00a0 Third World and Indigenous Women\u2019s Theology<\/em>, ed. Kwok Pui-lan (Maryknoll, New York:\u00a0 Orbis Books, 2010), 194.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[iv]<\/a> Monica Jyotsna Melanchton, \u201cDalit Women and the Bible:\u00a0 Hermeneutical and Methodological Reflections\u201d, Hope Abundant:\u00a0 Third World and Indigenous Women\u2019s Theology<\/em>, ed. Kwok Pui-lan (Maryknoll, New York:\u00a0 Orbis Books, 2010) 111.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[v]<\/a> Laura E. Donaldson, \u201cThe Signs of Orpah:\u00a0 Reading Ruth through Native Eyes\u201d, Hope Abundant:\u00a0 Third World and Indigenous Women\u2019s Theology<\/em>, ed. Kwok Pui-lan (Maryknoll, New York:\u00a0 Orbis Books, 2010), 138.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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[vi]<\/a>Isabel Apawo Phiri, Meng Yanling, Maria Jose Rosado-Nunes and Carmilita Usog, \u201cBody, Sexuality, and Spirituality\u201d, Hope Abundant:\u00a0 Third World and Indigenous Women\u2019s Theology, ed., Kwok Pui-lan <\/em>(Maryknoll, New York:\u00a0 Orbis Books, 2010), 219-266.<\/p>\n

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