Marcia Riggs

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Marcia Y. Riggs is J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics, Emerita, Columbia Theological Seminary. She has published articles and books on womanist ethics, sexual-gender justice, moral education, public discourse, and public policy. Her publications include: Awake, Arise, and Act! A Womanist Call for Black Liberation; Can I Get a Witness? Prophetic Religious Voices of African American Women, an Anthology; Plenty Good Room: Black Women versus Male Power in the Black Church, and she is a co-editor of Ethics That Matters: African, Caribbean, and African American Sources. Dr. Riggs was awarded a 2017-2018 Henry Luce III Fellowship from the Luce Foundation and the Association of Theological Schools.

A Theological Commentary on the Bible

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Marcia Riggs

Ruth and Esther theologically examines Ruth and Esther as moral agents who overcome gendered violence with moral courage and imagination. In this volume of the Belief commentary series, Marcia Y. Riggs brings a womanist, social-ethical reading of the books of Ruth and Esther to reveal the intersection of various forms of gendered violence—social, political, ethnic, economic. Riggs insightfully invites readers to examine how Ruth and Esther are social actors and moral agents responding constructi...
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Publication Date: 04/22/2025