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Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength
Kat Armas
4.4 AVERAGE
75 reviews for:
Abuelita Faith: What Women on the Margins Teach Us about Wisdom, Persistence, and Strength
Kat Armas
4.4 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
How I wish I would've had this book fifteen years ago. Kat Armas skillfully weaves together stories of courageous, complicated, and nuanced women of the Bible, modern day women, and the abuelas in her own family.
Kat uses historical context as well as a robust theological lens to bring to life these women and show God's faithfulness and blessing on their lives. I love her emphasis on embodied wisdom, wisdom found not from seminary degrees, but from everyday living--creating, providing, nourishing and clothing our families, making music, healing.
This view of God existing in the in-between spaces, in the daily struggle to survive, in the mess of humanity is so powerful. Her words say it best:
"Western theology has taught us to look for dualities in a book that never meant to hold them. Instead, the Bible's narratives are messy and multilayered. It's pages replete with characters who trick men into sleeping with them, who disobey authority, who lie, and even who steal and yet are still called "blessed" by God. Perhaps recognizing the complexity of the human experience within the stories of Scripture can shift how we see and engage with the other...We tell these stories because they are the stories of God existing in the gray with God's people, of God journeying alongside them in the messiness of what it means to be human, of what it means to survive--and even attempt to thrive--in the midst of the oppressive empires, in exile, in between two worlds.
Kat uses historical context as well as a robust theological lens to bring to life these women and show God's faithfulness and blessing on their lives. I love her emphasis on embodied wisdom, wisdom found not from seminary degrees, but from everyday living--creating, providing, nourishing and clothing our families, making music, healing.
This view of God existing in the in-between spaces, in the daily struggle to survive, in the mess of humanity is so powerful. Her words say it best:
"Western theology has taught us to look for dualities in a book that never meant to hold them. Instead, the Bible's narratives are messy and multilayered. It's pages replete with characters who trick men into sleeping with them, who disobey authority, who lie, and even who steal and yet are still called "blessed" by God. Perhaps recognizing the complexity of the human experience within the stories of Scripture can shift how we see and engage with the other...We tell these stories because they are the stories of God existing in the gray with God's people, of God journeying alongside them in the messiness of what it means to be human, of what it means to survive--and even attempt to thrive--in the midst of the oppressive empires, in exile, in between two worlds.
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
challenging
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
slow-paced
challenging
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
informative
reflective
slow-paced
A beautiful weaving of life experience, women of faith and biblical stories to highlight "abuelita faith".
I value Armas’ perspective on life as a woman of color living in Western Christianity, and she gives some good insight into women of the Bible and Latina women throughout history. However, I believe liberation theology takes the truth that God values justice and offers freedom, and places it on a pedestal instead of the gospel. I also felt that she misrepresented some of the biblical stories for the sake of making a point, without ever explaining how she reached her unusual interpretive conclusions.
I thought this was good but I am not the right audience for it. Would be good for a Sunday School class or book discussion group that is beginning to think about these topics.