Concilium 2000/4: Bright Side of Faith

by Elsa Tamez, Ellen Wolde (Editor)

The joyful task of theology / Timothy Radcliffe -- I. The Earth Bible. Profiling creation as grace / Ellen van Wolde -- The inverse cosmology of an option to celebrate? / Norman C. Habel -- the ambiguity of enjoyment / Antoon Schoors -- II. Ecofeminism and grace. The God of immanence and transcendence rethought / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- The dance of creation / Isabel Go?mez Acebo -- Grace and the a postcolonial reflection on ideology and doctrinal systems / Marcella Maria Althaus-Reid -- III. A worldwide view of grace. Identity shaped by the examples from folk talk of the Akan in Ghana / Mercy Amba Oduyoye -- Subversion, transgression, 'Asian spirituality' in the light of Dalit and Adivasi struggles / Gabriele Dietrich -- IV. God's grace - good grace? God laughing out loud / Mary Hunt -- Grace in the midst of unexpected gifts / Frei Betto -- The God of grace versus the 'God' of the market / Elsa Tamez -- The destructive and liberating power of anthropological and theological aspects / Karl-Josef Kuschel

128 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2000

About the author

Elsa Tamez is a Methodist and Liberation Theologian. She was born in Mexico in 1950. Prof. Tamez received her Doctor's Degree in Theology from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. She received her Licentiate in Theology in 1979 from the Latin American Biblical Seminary, and a Licentiate in Literature and Linguistics at the National University of Costa Rica in 1986. She is a faculty member of the Latin American Biblical University in Costa Rica and a member of the team of researchers of the Ecumenical Department of Investigation (DEI) in Costa Rica. She is married with two children.

Among her most known publications in English are: The Bible of the Oppressed (1980), The Scandalous Message of James (1989), The Amnesty of Grace (1993), and When the Horizons Close: Rereading Ecclesiastes (2000). Her latest publication is Jesus and Courageous Women (2001). She has received several awards for her contributions to Contextual Biblical Hermeneutics.