358 - Through Her Eyes: Women's Theology from Latin America

Through Her Eyes: Women's Theology from Latin America
By Elsa Tamez, ed.
Maryknoll, NY, Orbis, 1989.168 pp. $11.95.

Finally, North Americans are able to see women's ways of doing Latin American liberation theology. Empowered by what Elsa Tamez calls "the rediscovery of the face of God in our own faces," nine theologians representing a variety of religious and geographical situations (as ordained Protestants and Roman Catholic laywomen and nuns, working in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay) bring the diversity of their experience as women to their work of critique and creation.

Through these women's eyes, we see new ways of imaging God, faith, and the theological task. Tereza Cavalcanti, on the basis of her study of "The Prophetic Ministry of Women in the Hebrew Bible," states: "The liberator God frees people from the limitations of their faith tradition." Alida Verhoeven rejects the static title assigned to her, "The Concept of God," preferring a dynamic image: "from our perspective the Presence of Creative-Recreative Spiritual Force, the source of Life and Love, is like an ongoing movement … like throwing a rock into a still pond."

Illuminating and important reading for North Americans!

Judith E. Sanderson
Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, N.J.