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… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share
Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
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… — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share
all theology knowingly or not is by definition always engaged for or against the oppressed. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Resurrection does not simply spell the survival of the soul but requires the transformation of the world as we know it. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
Not only is history written by the winners, it is also made by them. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
The Christian marginality of women has its roots in the patriarchal beginnings of the church and in the androcentrism of Christian revelation. — Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza Copy Share Image
