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ix Acknowledgments Needless to say, the publication of a book, like all intellectual work, always owes its existence to teamwork and much unrecognized labor. Hence, it is important to make visible the people who have greatly contributed to its final embodiment . While I take all responsibility for its content and appearance (except for the cover design, which is the result of the publisher’s decision), I want to thank all those who have worked on it. I am grateful to Michal Beth Dinkler, doctoral student in New Testament/ Early Christianity, for going over the manuscript, identifying repetitions, and polishing my style. Although she did her best to mark overlaps and pages to be cut, it is in the nature of a collection of essays like this that ideas and arguments are repeated. While the individual essays are written for variegated audiences, their collection in a volume changes their context and rhetoric. My faculty assistant Kimberly Richards O’Hagan deserves special thanks for scanning some of the articles and translating them into Word files. Her thoughtful assistance and competent help are greatly appreciated. Without her capable support I would not have found the time and energy to finish this work. Michael West, Editor-in-chief of Fortress Press, enthusiastically supported this project and paved the way for it. I am deeply grateful for his sage counsel and sustained interest in my work over the years. With his departure, not only Fortress Press but also I have lost a trusted editor. He is a leader in the field of academic theological publishing. I am greatly indebted, therefore, to Acquiring Editor Neil Elliott, who was willing to graciously take over the editorial work after Michael’s departure to Switzerland. I have greatly appreciated Neil’s willingness to work with me in order to bring the project to publication. His care and suggestions for the manuscript have significantly improved it. I am also grateful to Susan Johnson, Managing Editor at Fortress Press, for working out contractual issues and getting the project started, to Marissa Wold for coordinating all aspects of the production and manufacturing process, and to Josh Messner for his careful editing of the manuscript. x | Acknowledgments I also want to thank my colleague Dr. Linda Maloney, who consented to translate some chapters of my book Grenzenüberschreiten: Der theoretische Anspruch feministischer Theologie: Ausgewählte Aufsätze (Münster: LIT, 2004), which appear not only in this but also in the next two projected volumes of my selected essays. I am very grateful for her initial translation of chapters 2, 4, 6, and 11, which allowed me to work on the revision of these chapters. Last but not least, as always I am deeply grateful to my partner Francis Schüssler Fiorenza for his unfailing companionship, love, and friendship. In particular I want to thank him for his computer help and patience with a technologically challenged scholar like me. Over the years Dr. Chris Miryam Schüssler-Fiorenza has been an inspiring presence in my life for which I am deeply grateful. I also want to thank the members of my Fall 2010 seminar on Feminist Theory and The*logy, whose spirited questions and critical challenges have greatly contributed to the conceptualization of this work. This book is dedicated to two leading feminist the*logians, Ivone Gebara from Brazil and Christine Schaumberger from Germany, in celebration of their sixtieth birthdays and with great appreciation for their pathbreaking feminist work. Ivone is one of Latin America’s leading the*logians, known for her theoretical articulation of Latin American feminist liberation the*logy in general and for the development of a planetary, eco-feminist the*logy and spirituality in particular . Christine Schaumberger’s work is equally important, but unfortunately less known internationally. Over the years, she has developed and refined a critical feminist the*logy of liberation in the context of the “First World.” Her work has explored political the*logy, questions of power, work, everyday life, bread and roses, racial bias, and aging. I have greatly appreciated her friendship over the years. Both Christine and Ivone’s feminist theoretical work is deeply rooted in a critical feminist the*logy of liberation and articulated in and through working with wo/men from all walks of life. I hope they will accept this dedication as a token of my great appreciation and friendship. Ad multos annos, Christine and Ivone! ...

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