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Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza

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    all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed.

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    Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.

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    Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them.

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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.

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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.

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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.