Denise Rector

Posts by Denise Rector

Jesus is for You: A Feminist Reading of Bonhoeffer’s Christology

This essay makes available a central portion of Reading from the Underside of Selfhood: its tracing of Bonhoeffer‘s conception of the redemptive work of Jesus Christ through a feminist lens.

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For the Life of the World: Toward the Next Ten Years of Spiritus

This essay contributes to an invited panel reflecting on the future of the discipline of Christian Spirituality; I assert the necessity of an ecological perspective framing everything we do.

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Particularity, Incarnation, and Discernment: Bonhoeffer’s ‘Christmas’ Spirituality

In this article, I explore what it might mean to name Bonhoeffer‘s experience of the Christian life a “Christmas” spirituality. Both pieces were developed out of lectures given in fall 2006. This first piece explores Bonhoeffer‘s conception of the self and its particularity and formation, with reference to discernment, and was originally presented to a […]

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Groundswell

Focuses on the biocentric scope of Christian theology. Emphasis on the metaphoric registration of Spirit as bird, earth, wind and water; the absence of pneumatology in the Western Christian theology; and consideration of Spirit as the confessional confidante for disagreeing with the nature of nature.

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Wisdom to Make the World Go On: On Disability and the Cultural Delegitimation of Suffering

This essay proceeds by exploring the wisdom, even authority, of bodies that admit suffering, namely, the socially abjected bodies of the disabled. What seems to the cultural eye the physical obstinacy of disability suggests rather a religious, philosophical, and/or cultural rejection, namely, an undigested or inadmissable awareness that to live will involve us in physical […]

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Becoming a Feminist Theologian of the Cross

This article is a condensed version of argument made in Crossing the Divide.

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