Reframing the House: Constructive Feminist Global Ecclesiology for the Western Evangelical Church
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Reframing the House continues the conversation of global theology as the future of the church. Jennifer Buck tells how women's voices from Africa, Asia, and Latin America serve as a critique of Evangelical theology of the church in the West. Three voices are highlights here from the Majority world: Mercy Oduyoye, a Ghanaian feminist theologian as representative of Africa; Kwok Pui-lan, a Chinese feminist theologian as representative of Asia; and Maria Pilar Aquino, a Mexican feminist theologian representative of the Americas. Working with these women along with Quaker, political, and feminist voices, this work presents a constructive global ecclesiology, exploring areas such as salvation, sin, peacemaking, and more.
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"This is a fantastic book. Jen Buck offers a wonderfully
original work simultaneously critiquing outmoded models of the
church while offering fresh and invigorating options built from the
multitude of voices scattered across the earth. She helps us
understand some of the most complex features of contemporary
and feminist theology without sacrificing a robust commitment and
confidence in the person and work of Christ. This is sure to
become a leading voice in the field."
--Gayle D. Beebe, President, Westmont College
"Dr. Buck provides a needed resource for Evangelicals today who
search to expand theological and ecclesial frames that may no
longer hold increasingly diverse questions concerning faith and
life. Buck's search for truth leads her to reap the wisdom of other
theological voices and methods, ones that are sorely needed for
contemporary Evangelicalism and the church. This is one of those
works that challenges Evangelicalism out of an ecclesiological and
theological past and into a bolder future."
--Mark Chung Hearn, Director of Contextual Education and Assistant
Clinical Professor of Contextual Education and Ministry, Seattle
University School of Theology and Ministry
"Jennifer Buck's Reframing the House gives a voice
to Majority World women who have not been heard much in Western
discussions about the nature of the church. And Buck uses their
voice to propose a constructive global ecclesiology that has
implications for the way we think about sin, salvation, and the
existence of the church as an alternative society to the sexism,
racism, ethnocentrism, individualism, and all the other -isms that
even infect the contemporary church. She does this with
graciousness and humility, yet conviction. There is no generic
Christianity; the noun always requires an adjective--something we
in the West often overlook. That is why Buck's book is needed: it
participates in the answer to the Apostle Paul's prayer in
Ephesians that we might come to know the dimensions of Christ's
love 'with all the saints.'"
--Dennis Okholm, Azusa Pacific University
"This book should be celebrated for its deep feminist, ecumenical,
and global commitments. Buck mines the richness of the work of
three trailblazing feminists from the Third World--Mercy Oduyoye,
Kwok Pui-Lan, and Maria Pilar Aquino--to show how and why the
Western evangelical 'house' needs to be 'reframed.' Readers will
find their theological horizons broadened, their appreciation of
world Christianity deepened, and their understanding of the
important contributions that feminism provides enhanced."
--Grace Yia-Hei Kao, Author; Associate Professor of Ethics,
Claremont School of Theology; Codirector of the Center for
Sexuality, Gender, and Religion
Product Details
- Title : Reframing the House: Constructive Feminist Global Ecclesiology for the Western Evangelical Church
- Author: Buck, Jennifer Marie
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Publication Date: 2016
- ISBN: 9781498278836
Jennifer Buck holds a PhD in Philosophy of Religion and Theology from Claremont Graduate University and an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary. She teaches theology, biblical studies, and practical theology at Azusa Pacific University and Hope International University, as well as serving in preaching and teaching roles at her church.