Sophia's screams: the gospel on fourteenth street, a Bible-dialogue retreat between some members of Sojourners and St John's, Lafayette Square, in the city of Washington, DC

Brown, Hugh E.

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Sophia's screams: the gospel on fourteenth street, a Bible-dialogue retreat between some members of Sojourners and St John's, Lafayette Square, in the city of Washington, DC

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Brown, Hugh E. Sophia's Screams: the Gospel On Fourteenth Street, a Bible-dialogue Retreat Between Some Members of Sojourners and St John's, Lafayette Square, In the City of Washington, Dc. Wesley Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/10f0a0ab-6f34-4075-a0bd-5bddb004a2bd.

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B. H. E. Sophia's screams: the gospel on fourteenth street, a Bible-dialogue retreat between some members of Sojourners and St John's, Lafayette Square, in the city of Washington, DC. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/10f0a0ab-6f34-4075-a0bd-5bddb004a2bd

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Brown, Hugh E. Sophia's Screams: the Gospel On Fourteenth Street, a Bible-Dialogue Retreat Between Some Members of Sojourners and St John's, Lafayette Square, In the City of Washington, Dc. Wesley Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/10f0a0ab-6f34-4075-a0bd-5bddb004a2bd.

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Brown, Hugh E.

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'Sophia's Screams: The Gospel on Fourteenth Street' describes my attempt to bring together persons of faith representing diverse social and economic contexts of ministry within Washington, DC, around a two-day weekend retreat using a 'dialogue model' of group biblical interpretation. I drew retreat participants from diverse settings of ministry which I have served over the period of my work in the Doctor of Ministry program at Wesley Seminary: Sojourners, set in the Columbia Heights area of the district, and St John's Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, set in the 'Federal Square' area of Washington. I take the title of the project from two sources: Elizabeth Johnson's work, She Who Is, which pictures God through the biblical figure of wisdom, Sophia, she manifests power principally through compassionate anguish on behalf of the world's suffering; and the social context of both Sojourners and St John's Church, the 14th street corridor of Washington, DC, home to both the commericial and professional classes of American political and economic culture--and home to 'the pregnant junkie mother Leonor, who gave birth to twins infected with AIDS.' My dialogue model of biblical interpretation is grounded in four sources to be more fully described in this project: 'the Gospel in Solentiname,' a collection of discussions of Gospel texts by Nicaraguan peasants which were facilitated by the priest Ernest Cardenal; the'lament dialogue' tradition of prayer in the Hebrew scriptures, descripted by three contemporary portraits of the Book of Job, chapter 19; the dialogue between Jesus of Nazareth and the Syrophoenician Woman in Mark 7:24-30; and the biblical concept of pathos as outlined in a feminist theology of 'vulnerability,' and described by theologians Dorothee Soelle and Elizabeth Johnson. I term my model of group biblical dialogue, 'Sophia's Screams,' which is defined by feminine metaphors of birth, passionate resistance, grief, and affliction. My thesis for this project is that the principal transformation wrought by 'Sophia's Screams' is a people's deepened awareness of the screams of protest from those on the margins of our society, by being in touch with cries of resistance from the margins of the soul.

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