Our cry for life Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	The Irruption of History into Women's Life and Consciousness	9
	The Way of Speaking about God	9
	The Primacy of Practice in Liberation Theology	11
	From a Despoiled and Dominated Continent: A Brief History	13
	The Emergence of Women as Active Participants in History and Theology	18
2	Latin American Women's Discovery of Causality	26
	Changes in Ways of Understanding from the Perspective of Women	27
	The Political Character of Biology in the Subordination of Women	30
	The Creation of Social Gender	33
	The Three-dimensional Character of the Struggle	37
	The Centrality of Daily Life	38
3	Women in the Church of the Poor	42
	The Conquistadors' Mission and Logic	43
	Women's Emergence as Actors/Subjects in the Church	48
	Women Are Giving the Church a New Face	52
4	The Understanding of Faith from the Perspective of Women	62
	Women and Liberation Theology	64
	Women Doing Theology: Word in Context	67
	Theology Done by Women and Traditional Theology	71
5	Methodological Premises for Theology from the Perspective of Women	81
	An Egalitarian Anthropological Perspective	82
	The Word as Affirmation of Full Humanity	90
	Sexuality as a Source of Liberation	97
	The Logic of Life in Women's Strength	101
6	Women's Contribution to Theology in Latin America	109
	The Theological Method	109
	The Hermeneutics of Suspicion and Daring	121
	The God of Life and the Rachamin of the Trinity	130
	Jesus Christ: Life and Liberation in a Discipleship of Equals	138
	Spirituality: A New Way of Acting in the Power of the Spirit	149
	The Church - Baptismal Community of Equal Discipleship	160
	Mary, Prophetic and Liberating Woman	171
7	Other Themes in Latin American Feminist Theology	178
	Women and the Theme of Popular Devotion	178
	The Right to Integrity, Goodness, and Beauty	181
	Women's Liberation and Christian Ethics	186
	Conclusions	191
	Notes	199
	Bibliography	237
	Index	251