--- product_id: 19592239 title: "In Memory of Her (10th Anniversary): A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins" price: "2548180₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/19592239-in-memory-of-her-10th-anniversary-a-feminist-theological-reconstruction store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # In Memory of Her (10th Anniversary): A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins **Price:** 2548180₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** In Memory of Her (10th Anniversary): A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins - **How much does it cost?** 2548180₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/19592239-in-memory-of-her-10th-anniversary-a-feminist-theological-reconstruction) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description In Memory of Her (10th Anniversary): A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins [Elisabeth Fiorenza] on desertcart.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In Memory of Her (10th Anniversary): A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins Review: Arrived in great condition - This arrived in great condition and earlier than I expected. I appreciate that so much. Review: A scholarly book - This book is suitable for a college level investigation into feminism and the Catholic Church. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #312,601 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #1,221 in Christian Discipleship (Books) #1,624 in Christian Church History (Books) #2,232 in Christian Women's Issues | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars (63) | | Dimensions | 6 x 1.04 x 9 inches | | Edition | 10th | | ISBN-10 | 0824513576 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0824513573 | | Item Weight | 1.2 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 414 pages | | Publication date | March 1, 1994 | | Publisher | PublishDrive | ## Images ![In Memory of Her (10th Anniversary): A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/6143sOKdxYL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Arrived in great condition *by M***M on October 3, 2024* This arrived in great condition and earlier than I expected. I appreciate that so much. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A scholarly book *by P***O on March 23, 2024* This book is suitable for a college level investigation into feminism and the Catholic Church. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An important book but not an easy one; also, the four-star rating reflects 2023, not 1983 *by A***E on February 26, 2023* This book offers a major feminist reconstruction of early Christianity. Now forty years old, you would expect many parts to seem dated. Though some parts do reflect the concerns of the 1970s and 1980s, especially the methodological sections, much of the rest remains fresh. However, it is a serious, highly academic tome, one that will not be accessible to the general reader despite her claimed intentions. Both as a feminist and a theologian, and as an expert on early Church history, Schüssler Fiorenza does not want to reject biblical history, no matter how sexist she finds it. Instead, she wants to reclaim that history, and reclaim it for women in particular. That means finding the authentic women’s histories in the Christian Bibles. In this way, she echoes a concern of her time in trying to find the historical Jesus as a Mediterranean peasant, an itinerant preacher, an ascetic, a political dissident, or whatever one might call him in secular terms. Schüssler Fiorenza wanted to speak to two audiences in 1983: women in the academy and in the churches, and the academic audience of theology and religious studies. She did not want to write a popular book on “women in the Bible,” but to find even those histories that the texts obscure. I would say that she succeeded in not writing a popular book, but it certainly succeeds as a careful, academic one. To find the real histories hidden in the texts, Schüssler Fiorenza begins with methodology. Here too she reflects the concerns of her time, both in biblical studies and in the humanities more generally. Those unfamiliar with these movements will find Part One slow going. Many of these ideas have become more familiar since 1983, so her defenses may read today as trying to do too much that she didn’t need to do. After this methodological part, Schüssler Fiorenza turns to her central historical question: how did women lose the leading role in the Jesus movement and in the house churches that they once had? She argues that Christian texts reflect a steady process of patriarchalization. The authors featured male figures. The church chose to canonize texts with more patriarchal views, leaving out “Gnostic” and “heretical” texts, especially those closer to the Sofia tradition in the early church. He see this in the text she chooses as her title. In Mark 14:9, Jesus praises a woman who anoints him with a costly oil, saying this this act will be remembered “in memory of her.” Unfortunately, most accounts cannot be bothered to remember her name. John’s gospel does provide her name, Mary of Bethany, which connects her to other references in our texts. We know from Paul’s letters that women were important figures in the early house churches. His greetings often mention women as co-workers in Christ and he refers to many missionary couples in his community. As a result, we have many of their names but we tend not to know much about them beyond that. We have other accounts of women in texts like the Gospel of Mary or the Acts of Paul and Thecla, but as they church became more strongly hierarchical and patriarchal, it excluded these once-popular accounts. The household codes provide another example of patriarchalization that Schüssler Fiorenza discusses at length. Like others, she sees a steady transition from the radical equality of the authentic Paul, to a kind of conditional hierarchy in deutero-Paul, and then to full hierarchy in the letters of pseudo-Paul. As she examines such texts, Schüssler Fiorenza reads between the lines to imagine and piece together the role of women in the Jesus movement. Her knowledge of Greco-Roman culture helps her reconstruct the movement's organizational forms in Antioch as well as the cities to which Paul writes. Some will read these analyses as speculative, but she has little choice. This project rests on the methodology that she developed in the first part, and I would suggest that objectors offer an alternative methodology if they wish to provide a better account. While I appreciate much of this analysis, I thought that Christological understanding of Jesus in terms of Sophia felt a bit plodding at times. While important for helping the Church's mission to the Hellenistic world, Schüssler Fiorenza did not distinguish the “marketing” aspects of Sophia for urban Greeks from the “genuine” theology of the idea. We do have “heretical” and “Gnostic” texts that feature Sophia but those vary considerably in importance (and quality). I also noticed that Schüssler Fiorenza necessarily focused only on the urban churches of the diaspora and did not try to reconstruct either the community in Jerusalem, which remained skeptical of Paul, nor whatever house churches might have existed in the villages where Jesus lived and mostly preached. She does not use Acts to try to reconstruct itinerant preachers in the villages, nor those who worked outside the eastern Mediterranean. Schüssler Fiorenza concludes with the question of praxis: what will we do about all this? Her approach offers a feminist liberation theology, one that disrupts traditional androcentric approaches. This too echoes others concerns of her time, notably the liberation theology of Latin America. She sees this theology as rejecting domination, leaving open a door for white men of the rich world to relinquish privilege and join a movement of radical equality. This agenda connects to wider themes in feminism, history, and epistemology. Difficult as it is for those unfamiliar with academic scholarship in these fields, this important book still repays study. ## Frequently Bought Together - In Memory of Her (10th Anniversary): A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins - Faith Seeking Understanding, Fourth ed.: An Introduction to Christian Theology - A Layman's Guide to Protestant Theology --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vn/products/19592239-in-memory-of-her-10th-anniversary-a-feminist-theological-reconstruction](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/19592239-in-memory-of-her-10th-anniversary-a-feminist-theological-reconstruction) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vietnam* *Store origin: VN* *Last updated: 2026-04-26*