Susanne Guenther Loewen

Susanne Guenther Loewen holds a PhD in Mennonite and feminist approaches to peace ethics from the University of St. Michael’s College at the Toronto School of Theology. She has previously taught at Emmanuel College (Toronto School of Theology) and Canadian Mennonite University. Her research interests include Mennonite peace ethics, Christian feminist and womanist approaches to nonviolence, and sexual and gender-based violence in the church.  

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Loewen, Susanne Guenther. "Breaking the Silences: A Theo-Ethics of Survival and Nonviolent Resistance to Sexual Violence in Rudy Wiebe's Sweeter than all the World and Miriam Toews's Women Talking." The Conrad Grebel Review (Fall 2024): [Forthcoming].

______.“The Personal Is Political: The Politics of Liberation in Mennonite-Feminist Theologies.” Political Theology 22, no. 3 (2021): 192-210. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1462317X.2021.1905334

______.“Can the Cross Be ‘Good News’ for Women? Mennonite Peace Theology and the Suffering of Women.” Anabaptist Witness 3, no. 2 (Fall, 2016): 109-121. 
[also translated into Spanish and French] https://www.anabaptistwitness.org/journal_entry/can-the-cross-be-good-news-for-women/

______. “Re-Baptizing Mary: Toward a Mennonite-Feminist Re(dis)covery of the Mother of Jesus.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 34 (2016): 261-278. https://jms.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/jms/article/view/1653/1631

 ______. “Is God a Pacifist? The J. Denny Weaver and A. James Reimer Debate in Contemporary Mennonite Peace Theology.” The Conrad Grebel Review 33, no. 3 (Fall, 2015): 315-335. https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/vol.-33-no-3-2015.pdf

______. “Jesus Christ as Woman Wisdom? Complicating the Gender of Christ.” Religious Studies and Theology 30, No. 1 (2011): 71-82. https://journal.equinoxpub.com/RST/article/view/1381

Other Academic Articles and Publications:

Loewen, Susanne Guenther. “Nonviolent Soteriology.” In The T&T Clark Encyclopaedia of Christian Theology: Christology. New York: T&T Clark, [Forthcoming].

______. “Martyrdom and Double Tellings: Remembering Resistance and Trauma.” Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology 25, no. 1 (Spring, 2024): 36-44. https://press.palni.org/ojs/index.php/vision/article/view/868/745

______.“After Yoder: Failure, Authenticity, and the Renewal of the Mennonite Church.” In Concern for Church Renewal: Essays on Community and Discipleship, 1958-1966, ed. Laura Schmidt Roberts, 135-147. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2022.

______. “Living Out the Trinity: A Mennonite-Feminist Theology of Diversity and Community,” in The Conrad Grebel Review 37, no. 2 (2019): 180-189. https://uwaterloo.ca/grebel/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/vol.-37-no-2-2019.pdf

______. “Stolen Waters, Thirsty People.” In Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization, ed. Steve Heinrichs, 220-221. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2019/Winnipeg: Mennonite Church Canada, 2018.

______ and Kimberly Penner. Foreword to The Challenge Is in the Naming: A Theological Journey, by Lydia Neufeld Harder, 10-14. Winnipeg: Canadian Mennonite University Press, 2018.

______. “‘We are all meant to be mothers of God’: Mothering as Embodied Peacemaking.” Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology (Fall, 2016): 23-34. https://press.palni.org/ojs/index.php/vision/article/view/127/86