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100	1		_aOredein, Oluwatomisin Olayinka _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Theology of Mercy Amba Oduyoye: Ecumenism, Feminism, and Communal Practice
260			_aNotre Dame, Indiana _bUniversity of Notre Dame Press _c2023
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337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
440			_aNotre Dame Studies in African Theology
505			_aCHAPTER 1: The Life of Mercy Amba Ewudziwa Oduyoye CHAPTER 2: A Feminist Emergence: Ideological Formations CHAPTER 3: Spheres of Influence CHAPTER 4: Doctrine of God CHAPTER 5: Christology CHAPTER 6: Theological Anthropology CHAPTER 7: Ecclesiology CHAPTER 8 : What Remains
520			_a"This illuminating study explores African theologian Mercy Amba Oduyoye's constructive initiative to include African women's experiences and voices within Christian theological discourse. Mercy Amba Oduyoye, a renowned Ghanaian Methodist theologian, has worked for decades to address issues of poverty, women's rights, and global unrest. She is one of the founders of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, a pan-African ecumenical organization that mentors the next generation of African women theologians to counter the dearth of academic theological literature written by African women. This book offers an in-depth analysis of Oduyoye's life and work, providing a much-needed corrective to Eurocentric, colonial, and patriarchal theologies by centering the experiences of African women as a starting point from which theological reflection might begin. Oluwatomisin Oredein's study begins by narrating the story of Mercy Oduyoye's life, focusing on her early years, which led to her eventual interest in women's equality and African women's theology. At the heart of the book is a close analysis of Oduyoye's theological thought, exploring her unique approach to four issues: the doctrine of God, Christology, theological anthropology, and ecclesiology. Through the course of these examinations, Oredein shows how Oduyoye's life story and theological output are intimately intertwined. Stories of gender formation, racial ideas, and cultural foundations teem throughout Oduyoye's construction of a Christian theological story. Oduyoye shows that one's theology does not leave particularity behind but rather becomes the locus in which the fullness of divinity might be known"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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