Longing For Running Water

by Ivone Gebara

Overview

Gebara's profound and moving statement of principles of ecofeminism shows how intertwined are the tarnished environment around her and the poverty that afflicts her neighbors. From her experiences with the Brazilian poor-women's movement she develops a gritty urban ecofeminism and indeed articulates a whole worldview. She shows how the connections between Western thought, patriarchal Christianity, and environmental destruction necessitate personal conversion to "a new relationship with the earth and with the entire cosmos." Alongside her stern critique of our consumer mentality, Gebara cultivates a rich garden of insights into our relatedness, God's sacred presence in the universe, and our daily experience of the deepest longings of the human heart.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451409901
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	01/03/1999
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	299 KB

Table of Contents

	Prologue	V
	Introduction	1
1.	Knowing our Knowing: the Issue of Epistemology	19
	Epistemology in Search of Meaning	19
	Knowledge and Ethics	23
	The Hierarchical, Anthropocentric, and Androcentric Bias of Patriarchal Epistemology	25
	Patriarchal Epistemology in Theology	30
	Ecofeminist Epistemology	48
2.	The Human Person From an Ecofeminist Perspective	67
	Beginning to Talk about the Human Person	69
	Questioning the Autonomy of the Human Person	71
	The Patriarchal Perspective: Its Value and Limitations	76
	"Person" in an Ecofeminist Perspective: A Tentative Construction	82
3.	God: An Ecofeminist Approach to the Greatest of Mysteries	101
	Relatedness as a Language and an Experience of the Divine	102
	Issues Raised about Ecofeminist Discourse on God	110
	God: Models and Mystery	132
	God: My Hope	133
4.	Ecofeminism and the Trinity	137
	Feelings and Associations Related to the Trinity	137
	What Human Experience Is Described by Trinitarian Language?	139
	Religious Language and Its Crystallization in Institutions	151
	Reconstructing Trinitarian Meanings and Celebrating Life	155
5.	Jesus From an Ecofeminist Perspective	173
	The Road I Have Walked with Jesus	175
	Ecofeminist Challenges to Our Relationship with Jesus of Nazareth	182
6.	That all May Have Life: the Way to a New Understanding of Religion	193
	The Issue That Concerns Us	193
	The Destruction of Green Things, of Diversity, and of Our Symbols	197
	Religion and Community Life	199
	A Religion That Isn't in Crisis	202
	Religious Biodiversity: A Path in Need of Rediscovery	205
	Epilogue: As the Deer Longs for Running Waters	213
	Notes	217
	Bibliography	223
	Index	227