Feminist Introduction to Paul

A Feminist Introduction to Paul

Sandra Hack Polaski
Chalice Press, 2005
ISBN 9780827210370

Softcover, 176 pp.
8.9 X 6.0 X 0.6 inches | 0.6 pounds

Sandra Hack Polaski encourages a critical appreciation of Paul and his writings that does not require a choice between commitment to the scriptures and integrity as a modern feminist. She reads and reinterprets overlooked, neglected, disintegrated, or differently interpreted Pauline texts, making visible the invisible and challenging the accepted readings. Polaski traces the theological trajectories rising from Paul's thought toward their logical end--past Paul's culture into God's new creation in Jesus Christ. Polaski sees Paul's own struggles to live out his calling as an example of how Christian women today must live out their own callings in the struggles of specific situations and particular communities.

Sandra Hack Polaski is associate professor of New Testament at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. She holds a M.Div. degree from Vanderbilt Divinity School and a Ph.D. degree from Duke University. She has written Paul and the Discourse of Power for Sheffield Academic Press and contributed the commentary on 2 Corinthians to The IVP Women's Bible Commentary.