Bøger af Sallie McFague

Sallie McFague har sin helt egen stemme. Hun taler direkte og insisterende om, at vores overbevisninger har afgørende betydning for vores adfærd. Gennem årtier har hun præget den teologiske tænkning, først gennem sin forskning i metaforernes kraft – og i de seneste år ved at rette søgelyset mod vores måde at behandle verden på.I denne sidste bog, færdiggjort året før hendes død i 2019, opsummerer McFague sit livsværk. Det gør hun med en stærk opfordring til handling, til at vi lægger kursen om til gavn for både mennesket selv og hele vores planet. Hun mener, at verden har brug for det, hun betegner som "en kenotisk fortolkning" af kristendommen.Kenosis er hengivelsens princip, som vi også ser afspejlet i naturen: at noget må dø, for at nyt liv kan vokse frem. Og mennesket befinder sig ikke uden for naturen, men er forbundet med naturen og infiltreret i dens processer. Kenosis er korsets vej: at give afkald på alt for igen at kunne modtage liv, virkeligt liv, og derefter give dette liv videre."Hvor glædeligt, at denne bog udkommer netop på et tidspunkt, hvor den økologiske teologi igen er kommet på dagsordenen i Danmark! Her kan nye læsere begynde, og vi har alle meget at lære af McFague."Professor i systematisk teologi Niels Henrik Gregersen i bogens forord.

In this timely book, McFague recalls her readers to the practices of restraint. In a world bent on consumption it is imperative that people of religious faith realize the significant role they play in advocating for the earth, and a more humane life for all.

In this award-winning text, theologian Sallie McFague challenges Christians' usual speech about God as a kind of monarch. She probes instead three other possible metaphors for Godas mother, lover, and friend.

For decades, Sallie McFague lent her voice and theological imagination to advocating for the most important issues of our time. In this final book, finished before her death in 2019, McFague summarizes the work of a lifetime with a clear call to live in "such a way that all might flourish".

This work discusses the importance for theology of narrative and story. The central contention of the book is that, if Jesus' parables are taken as models of theological reflection, there is a form there that unites language, belief and life.

". . . a liberating book about a liberating theological approach." --Christianity and Crisis "Metaphorical Theology is a brilliant piece of writing which will make an important contribution both to new thinking on he nature of religious language and also to the dialogue between Christianity and Feminist Theology." --Rosemary Radford Ruether Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary "The great virtue of Professor McFague's book is that it tackles [some] crucial problems in an extremely perceptive and creative way . . . .All in all it is a most timely book both for the theological and for the church at large." --Maurice Wiles Regius Professor of Divinity Christ Church, Oxford University

"This book is not only absorbingly readable but important. For its themes engage effectively with main dilemmas not only of formal theology but of current piety and witness." - Amos N. Wilder, Andover Newton Quarterly "This book is immensely valuable for its persuasive illustrations of the parabolic and metaphoric imagination. McFague attends both to the interpretive and the evaluative levels of hermeneutics. Her readings of specific parables, poems, stories, and autobiographies are insightful and relevant to her thesis that what religious language 'says' is 'conceptually imperceivable and inexpressible.'" - Mary Gerhart, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "It is at the very least a fine guide to one important direction that theological hermeneutics might take, and more than that, it testifies confidently to the presence of still unplumbed resources of the biblical word and its secular counterpart that are there for the imagination's appropriation." - Robert Detweiler, Religious Studies Review "Everyone interested in theology will be stimulated by Sallie McFague's mediating theological position and the form of thinking and discourse she espouses. Those interested in the intercourse between theology and literature will be stimulated by the way she links the two and the perceptive way she handles her literary examples. Biblical scholars will undoubtedly note her primacy of the parables as the central corpus of the biblical records. Preachers of the church will be strengthened by the concern McFague has for the Christian community and the importance of the word through the words of the preachers. With this variety of concerns, Speaking in Parables will have a deservedly wide reading and, perhaps even more important, wide discussion." - Ronald E. Sleeth, Perkins School of Theology Journal