Letty Russell
Letty Mandeville Russell (born 1929 in Westfield ( New York ), † July 12, 2007 in Guilford (Connecticut) ) was an American theologian , author and Presbyterian clergyman .
Life
Russell first studied at Wellesley College . After graduating from there, she went to Harvard and became one of the first women to graduate from Harvard Divinity School. She was also one of the first women to be ordained pastors by the United Presbyterian Church, a predecessor of the Presbyterian Church (USA) . She obtained further theological degrees from Union Theological Seminary in New York.
In 1973 she was appointed assistant professor at Yale Divinity School , where she was given her own chair in 1985. Here she was considered a pioneer of feminist theology and ethics, and especially in the field of biblical studies. Russell was a member of the Yale Divinity School Women's Initiative on Gender, Faith, and Responses to HIV / AIDS in Africa . At the Theological Seminary in San Francisco she was one of the persons responsible for an international program to obtain the Doctor of Ministry in Feminist Theology. Russell served as a pastor in the Presbyterian Church of the Ascension for ten years.
Russell was initially married to the Dutch mission theologian and professor at Union Theological Seminary Johannes Christiaan "Hans" Hoekendijk (1912-1975). After his death, the publisher and expert on the subject was " neutral language " Shannon Clarkson Russell's girlfriend.
Works (selection)
Russell wrote and edited 17 different books, including a .:
- Church in the Round. Feminist Interpretations of the Church.
- Dictionary of Feminist Theologies.
- with Phyllis Trible : Hagar, Sarah and Their Children. Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives. 2006.
literature
- Liberating Eschatology. Festschrift in honor of Russell, 1999.
- Margit Ernst-Habib: Subversive ecclesiastical - Letty Russell's theology and Reformed identity ; in: Reformed Theology Worldwide: Twelve Profiles from the 20th Century, ed. by Marco Hofheinz and Matthias Zeindler, TVZ, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3290176273 , pp. 267-292
Web links
- Literature by and about Letty Russell in the catalog of the German National Library
- Yale Divinity School Obituary
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Russell, Letty |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Russell, Letty Mandeville (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Westfield (New York) |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 12, 2007 |
| Place of death | Guilford (Connecticut) |