With Passion and Compassion - Paperback

by Virginia MM Fabella (Editor), Mercy A. Oduyoye (Editor)

An outstanding collection of original essays, most published here for the first time, With Passion and Compassion provides the outlines of the common struggle of Third World women to forge their own, liberative theology. Protestant and Catholic, these women from Asia, Africa, and Latin America explore the question of what it means to be a Christian, and a woman, in the Third World. The contributors to With Passion and Compassion address traditional theological topics: christology, spirituality, the Bible. But they do so from the perspective that comes out of a struggle to overcome social and economic oppression. Their reflections constitute a powerful statement of faith as well as a challenge to existing structures and thinking, political and patriarchal.

Author Biography

Virginia Fabella, a Maryknoll sister from the Philippines, is editor of Asia's Struggle for Full Humanity and coeditor of Asian Spirituality.

Mercy Amba Oduyoye, a Ghanaian, is the coeditor of One Gospel, Many Cultures (2003) and author of Introducing African Women's Theology.