{"product_id":"dorothee-soelle-mystic-and-rebel-the-biography-9780800698089","title":"Dorothee Soelle - Mystic and Rebel: The Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eRenate Wind has composed a well-researched and searching biography of Dorothee Soelle (19292003), who became a true religious provocateur and one of the most prolific and widely read theologians of the postwar period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Germany and educated at the University of Cologne, Soelle turned from literary studies to theology, concentrating on rethinking Christian convictions in light of World War II and the Holocaust. A poet and activist as well as theologian, after her arrival at Union Theological Seminary in 1974, where she assumed the post previously held by Paul Tillich, Soelle became a leading voice for the liberation of women and against militarism, especially the Vietnam War. Her person, work, travels, and the times themselves combined to make her a pioneer and leader in the most exciting developments of the period: political theology, feminist theology, and liberation theology. Among her influential works were Christ the Representative (1967), Suffering (1975), To Work and to Love (1984), Theology for Skeptics (1994), and The Silent Cry (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinds short and insightful biography is informed by extensive interviews with Soelles friends and family, especially her husband, Fulbert Steffensky, by use of the familys archives, and by Winds extensive knowledge of contemporary theology, political history, and the contemporary church.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRumscheidt, Martin H.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartin Rumscheidt\u003c\/b\u003eis an ordained minister in the United Church of Canada and retired professor of historical theology at the University of Windsor, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Charles University, Prague. He is the translator of \u003ci\u003eAct and Being \u003c\/i\u003e(1996)in Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eEnglish edition, and cotranslator with the late Barbara Rumscheidt of Soelles \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Wind \u003c\/i\u003e(1999) and \u003ci\u003eThe Silent Cry\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLukens, Nancy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNancy Lukens\u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emerita of German and Women's Studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her translations include among others three volumes in Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, English edition: \u003ci\u003eSanctorum Communio\u003c\/i\u003e (1998, with Reinhard Krauss), \u003ci\u003eFiction from Tegel Prison (\u003c\/i\u003e2000), and Bonhoeffers prison poetry and late correspondence in \u003ci\u003eLetters and Papers from Prison\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), as well as \u003ci\u003eDaughters of Eve: Women Writers of the German Democratic Republic\u003c\/i\u003e (1993). She and her husband, Martin Rumscheidt, are co-translators of Soelles \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Death \u003c\/i\u003e(2007). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWind, Renate:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRenate Wind\u003c\/b\u003e lives in Heidelberg and is Professor of Biblical Theology and Church History at the Evangelische Hochschule Nurnberg. She has been engaged for many years in the peace movement and is author of Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Spoke in the Wheel (1991).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fortress Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50924383731986,"sku":"9780800698089","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_df3ad6ad-86e1-46ca-92a7-3492b7cc107f.jpg?v=1738971295","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dorothee-soelle-mystic-and-rebel-the-biography-9780800698089","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}