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What's being said about the book: Making a Way out of No Way

“Monica Coleman’s elegant prose makes Making a Way out of No Way a clear and accessible introduction to postmodern womanist theology. This book is a wonderful synthesis of the best of the past with attention to the foibles of our twenty-first-century present and realistic hope for creative future possibilities.”

Karen Baker-Fletcher,  Ph.D. Professor of Systematic Theology at Perkins School of Theology,  Southern Methodist University 
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Table of Contents

Editors’ Foreword by Anthony Pinn and Katie G. Cannon

Preface 
Introduction 
One: Making a Way Out of No Way
Womanist Theologians on Salvation 
Womanist Theologians on Salvation 
Making a Way Out of No Way 
Postmodern Challenges

Two: A Postmodern Framework
Process Theology and Salvation 
Process Theology as Constructive Postmodern Thought 
Whitehead on Evil, Freedom, and Immortality
The Resolution of Evil 
Summary of Whitehead’s Ideas 
A Postmodern Theological Framework
Womanist Challenges

Three: Creative Transformation 
Teaching and Healing Communities of God
Creative Transformation
Teaching and Healing 
Communal Context

Four: Learning From the Past
The Role of the Ancestors 
Rememory 
Spirit Possession

Five: A Communal Theology: Two Communities 
Black Women’s Science Fiction 
Walking the Way 
Loving the Way 

Conclusion