Susan Abraham

Enfleshing Freedom

Theology

“Impossibly, Copeland has lifted the second edition of Enfleshing Freedom to even higher heights than the first. Strongly theological and philosophical, the pastoral intent of her work is to center a womanist constructive theology to counter racist heterosexism. Copeland challenges and inspires all theological thinking to pay close attention to the metaphysics of raced being, the continuing violence of slaving histories, the exclusions of some bodies from ecclesial spaces, to fashion a theology, Christology, and ecclesiology that actively resist prejudice and bigotry. Constructively, the book is a nuanced and careful mapping of the urgent need for Christians to create and sustain complex solidarities that have the potential to transform the despair of hate and anger into communities "ordered by the Eucharist" of love and care.”

Liberalism and Colonial Violence

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“An imaginative and daring rendering of postcolonial spiritual care that challenges the supremacy of ‘pastoral’ metaphors and calls instead for the repair of ‘immured spirits.’ A deeply challenging book that urgently demands the decolonization of Western ‘pastoral’ care.”

Postcolonial Practices of Care

Counseling, Grief & Mental Health

“An aptly named project of togetherness during COVID-19 and racial violence, Postcolonial Practices of Care is a tour de force of examples of liberative spiritual practices of care. The essays argue that liberation is itself a spiritual practice; decolonizing spiritual care arises from collaborations and alliances in and through the margins imposed upon and in spite of Euro-American views of pastoral and spiritual care.”

Postmodernity and Univocity

Theology

“Daniel Horan has presented a spirited challenge to Radical Orthodoxy's 'Scotist illiteracy' by identifying the rhetorical sleights of hand of its major voices. Horan clearly inhabits the living tradition of a vital Franciscan theology, long overshadowed by a reactionary overdependence on Thomism in much of contemporary antimodern theology. Postmodernity and Univocity is at once a critical and constructive erudite study, but distinguished by exceptional accessibility and clarity in style.”