Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology (Innovations: African American Religious Thought Series ) by Monica A. Coleman

Editors' Foreword Katie Geneva Cannon Anthony B. Pinn vii Preface ix Introduction 1
1 Making a Way Out of No Way: Womanist Theologians on Salvation 11 Womanist Theologians on Salvation 12 Making a Way Out of No Way 33 Postmodern Challenges 36
2 A Postmodern Framework: Process Theology and Salvation 45 Process Theology as Constructive Postmodern Thought 46 Whitehead on Evil, Freedom, and Immortality 52 The Resolution of Evil 59 Summary of Whitehead's Ideas 70 A Postmodern Theological Framework 72 Womanist Challenges 78
3 Creative Transformation: Teaching and Healing Communities of God 85 Creative Transformation 86 Teaching and Healing 94 Communal Context 97
4 Learning from the Past: The Role of the Ancestors 101 Rememory 102 Spirit Possession 107 Conclusion 122
5 A Communal Theology: Two Communities 125 Black Women's Science Fiction 126 Walking the Way 132 Loving the Way 147 Conclusion 166 Conclusion 169 Notes 175 Bibliography 203 Index 215