Church in the Round: Feminist Interpretation of the Church Book

	Preface	11
Pt. 1	Round Table Connection	17
1	Round Table Talk	20
	Connecting to the Margin	21
	Faith, feminism, and the church	22
	Table principle	24
	Rereading from the margin	27
	The Spiral Connection	29
	Feminist methodology	30
	Rereading from the context	32
	Going around the spiral	34
	Talking Back to Tradition	35
	Feminist understanding of tradition	36
	Community of faith and struggle	39
	Feminist understanding of the church	42
2	Leadership in the Round	46
	Order and Organization	47
	Order and change	48
	Organization and ordination	50
	Quest for feminist leadership	54
	Overturning the Masters' Tables	58
	Iconoclasm of patriarchy	59
	Women in leadership	60
	House churches and household codes	61
	Round Table Leadership	63
	Community of the Spirit	64
	Authority in community	65
	Clues to feminist leadership	67
Pt. 2	Kitchen Table Solidarity	75
3	Communities of Faith and Struggle	78
	A Time of Kairos	80
	Signs of jubilee	81
	Confessing churches	82
	Confessional churches	83
	God's Mission and the Church	87
	Mission of God	88
	Missionary structures	90
	Liberation structures	92
	Liberation Communities	96
	Renewed Christian communities	97
	Basic Christian communities	101
	Feminist Christian communities	104
4	Justice and the Church	112
	Place of Salvation	114
	Justice and salvation	114
	No salvation outside the poor	119
	Double sin of the church	123
	Sign of Christ's Presence	127
	Household of God	128
	Signs of the church	131
	Justice connection	135
	Word Preached and Celebrated	137
	Word purely preached	137
	Sacraments rightly administered	139
	Table fenced with justice	145
Pt. 3	Welcome Table Partnership	149
5	Community of Hospitality	151
	White Racism: A Church-Dividing Issue	153
	Divided self and divided ministry	153
	Forms of structural sin	156
	Caught in the contradictions	158
	Contradictions of Divine Election	162
	Caught with his compassion down	162
	Rereading the story of the chosen people	164
	Bounded community	166
	Hospitality and the Church	168
	Need for identity	169
	Diversity and hospitality	172
	Hospitality on the margin	175
6	Spirituality of Connection	182
	Sister Choice	183
	Choosing to be a woman	183
	Choosing to be whole	187
	Kitchen table spirituality	189
	Sister Outsider	192
	Finding the margin	192
	Rejecting the contradictions	194
	Welcome table spirituality	196
	Sister Circle	198
	Choosing a tradition	199
	Opening the circle	201
	Round table partnership	205
	Notes	209
	Bibliography	241
	Index of Scripture References	245
	Index of Subjects	249
	Index of Names	251