Elsa Tamez

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Elsa Tamez (* 1950 or 1951 in Mexico ) is a Presbyterian theologian and university teacher. She lives in Costa Rica and works on liberation theology and feminist theology .

Life and work

Elsa Tamez was born in Mexico in 1951 and grew up in Monterrey with seven other siblings in modest circumstances. Her family was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

As a woman in Mexico, she was unable to implement her decision to study theology, which is why she went to Costa Rica. There she began studying at the Universidad Biblica Latinoamericana in San José , where she came into contact with the theology of liberation. She married in 1975 and has two children. In 1979 she graduated in theology. In 1985 she earned another degree in literature and linguistics. In 1990 she completed her doctorate in theology in Lausanne (Switzerland) with the work “The Amnesty of Grace: Justification by Faith from a Latin American Perspective” .

Tamez taught at the Universidad Biblica Latinoamericana for 25 years until her retirement. In addition, she worked for the Departamiento Ecumenico de Investigaciones (Ecumenical Research Center, DEI) in San José and consultant for translations of the United Bible Societies . She is one of the most important biblical scholars within liberation theology. Her biblical theological study of the Pauline doctrine of justification is significant . Tamez also published on feminist theology. She lives and works in Costa Rica. In 2000 she received the Hans Sigrist Prize from the University of Bern .

Publications

  • The Bible of the Oppressed ( La Biblia de los oprimidos. ) 1979.
  • The amnesty of grace. Justification by Faith from a Latin American perspective.
  • (Ed.): And the women? Liberation theologians are available to answer questions. With a foreword by Luise Schottroff . Edition Liberación, Münster 1990, ISBN 978-3-923792-32-0 .
  • Against sentencing to death. Paul or justification by faith from the perspective of the oppressed and excluded. Edition Exodus, Lucerne 1998, ISBN 978-3-905575-75-0 .
  • Escape and a new beginning: The most moving migration stories from the Bible (Translator: Christiane Herrlinger), German Bible Society , Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-438-04813-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Miguel A. de la Torre: Liberation Theology for Armchair Theologians. Westminster Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-664-23813-1 , p. 78
  2. Orlando O. Espín, James B. Nickoloff (Eds.): An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies. Liturgical Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8146-5856-7 , p. 1351
  3. a b c d Bruno Kern: Theology of Liberation. Francke, Tübingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8252-4027-1 , p. 129
  4. Elsa Tamez: Descubriendo rostros distintos de Dios. In: Juan José Tamayo, Juan Bosh (ed.): Panorama de la teología latinoamericana. 2001, pp. 647-659
  5. Teología de la Liberación y contexto literario: Elsa Tamez (Spanish)
  6. a b cruciformtheology.net ( memento of the original from August 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 9, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cruciformtheology.net