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Book Synopsis Consecrated Women? by : Jonathan Baker
Download or read book Consecrated Women? written by Jonathan Baker and published by Canterbury Press Norwich. This book was released on 2004 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debate is raging behind the closed doors of the Rochester Commission over whether women priests can become bishops. This volume offers the views of those "for" and those "against", as well as providing information for those who do not know the issues involved.
Book Synopsis New Faces, New Possibilities by : Thomas P. Gaunt, SJ
Download or read book New Faces, New Possibilities written by Thomas P. Gaunt, SJ and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious sisters have created educational and healthcare systems over the past two hundred years that have transformed the Catholic community in the United States. Through their ministry, sisters have served waves of immigrants and those pushed to the margins. The growing cultural diversity of newer sisters and the diminishing number of older sisters, therefore, is both a challenge and a creative moment to be critically examined. This book examines these changes in culture and ethnicity among sisters, the structural impact of diminishing numbers, and the creative response to this new reality for religious life in the United States. In it, sisters from a variety of generations, cultures, and institutes join with the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) researchers to examine and reflect on CARA's recent research findings and their impact on the life and ministry of sisters today.
Book Synopsis A Place to Belong by : Corynne Staresinic
Download or read book A Place to Belong written by Corynne Staresinic and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Place to Belong: Letters from Catholic Women explores what it means to be a woman of faith today. Edited by Corynne Staresinic, the founder of the nonprofit The Catholic Woman, this stunning anthology of twenty-five deeply personal letters, wisdom from women saints, reflection questions, art, photography, and prayers will inspire you to live your femininity along your own unique life path as you find--and provide for others--a place to belong.
Book Synopsis A Conflict of Traditions by : Donald Hochstetler
Download or read book A Conflict of Traditions written by Donald Hochstetler and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1992 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronts various topics concerning women and religion in the Early Middle Ages such as separation, communal life, and obedience.
Book Synopsis Consecrated Womanhood by : Frederic Rowland Marvin
Download or read book Consecrated Womanhood written by Frederic Rowland Marvin and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work contains multiple examples of strong women in Scripture, but what makes it reasonable today is the author's detailed and cautious expression of how the Bible has come down on a large number of societal problems as well as how, historically, the Bible has always been a progressive and enlightening book, that's appropriate in all times and places. This work is an impressive sermon, preached in the First Congregational Church Portland, Oregon by Frederic Rowland Marvin, with an introductory notice by Frances Power Cobbe. It was delivered in 1903 during the women's ballot movement on the controversial subject of women in administration. Consecrated Womanhood is like a breath of fresh air for those who have long been dissatisfied by the prevailing tendency in Christian churches to deny to women the privileges and responsibilities of holy offices and duties. The preacher opens his discourse with the statement that "the Bible honored woman when every other book was blind to the true dignity of her character."
Book Synopsis Consecrated Spirits by : Felicity Leng
Download or read book Consecrated Spirits written by Felicity Leng and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many silent and forgotten voices are brought to life in this volume which presents the accumulated wisdom of women mystics, theologians, spiritual directors, poets, visionaries, mothers and activists over eleven centuries. Featured writers include Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, Therese of Lisieux, Bernadette of Lourdes, Bridget of Sweden, Wendy Beckett, Joan Chittister, and many more, some translated into English for the first time. Their concerns are broad ranging and they reflect on: Prayer, Family life, a woman's lot, suffering, comfort and consolation, women's ministry and its restrictions and more. All these varied voices are linked by a common thread: in every age women have sought authentic spiritual self expression. This anthology is an inspiration for all women today who are seeking opportunity to define and realise their charisma.
Book Synopsis No Place for a Woman by : Debra Maria Flint
Download or read book No Place for a Woman written by Debra Maria Flint and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This radical book examines the historical formation of Catholic theology from the perspective of the spiritual abuse of women. Debra Maria Flint defines spiritual and political power abuse before considering female influence in the Church from New Testament times to date. She clearly demonstrates how women, who were respected by Jesus and authoritative in the early Church, were gradually eliminated from positions of influence by patriarchy and the growing development of misogyny. In No Place for a Woman, Flint examines the hierarchical structure of the Church today and notes that in recent years there have been some attempts to involve women more fully, but these have been mere tinkering at the edges. What is really needed is a complete change of culture and a new feminist theology for which Flint seeks to lay the ground.
Author :Pieternella van Doorn-Harder Publisher :Univ of South Carolina Press ISBN 13 :9781570030345 Total Pages :288 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (33 download)
Book Synopsis Contemporary Coptic Nuns by : Pieternella van Doorn-Harder
Download or read book Contemporary Coptic Nuns written by Pieternella van Doorn-Harder and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare and engaging encounter with Egyptian cloistresses Contemporary Coptic Nuns reveals a world rarely seen by outsiders--the world of nuns who worship and serve as part of the largest community of indigenous Christians in the Middle East. One of the few people unaffiliated with the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church to observe these women, Pieternella van Doorn-Harder offers a compelling portrait of the nuns who devote their lives to this conservative faith. Van Doorn-Harder traces the current vitality of the Coptic monastic tradition to a church-wide renaissance of the mid twentieth-century. She credits Coptic mother superiors with harnessing the revival's energy to usher in an era of expanded opportunity for Egyptian Christian women. At that time they transformed convents into centers of Coptic faith and culture and began providing pastoral, educational, and medicinal services to the community. In depicting the nuns' daily lives, van Doorn-Harder describes their work, their role in the Coptic resurgence, their influence on the Coptic laity, and their position in the larger Islamic society. In presenting their spiritual lives, she attests to the vigor of their prayer, fasting, and devotions as well as to their spiritual gifts, which include clairvoyance, intercession, and healing.
Download or read book Fully Consecrated written by Haley Wade and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully Consecrated is the result of God birthing a dream He placed inside of Haley Wade's spirit. As she found her identity in Christ and sought to know Him more intimately each day, Haley experienced the richness of God's love. She recognized that the world could never satisfy her hungry heart.After she was made new in Christ, Haley longed to share the Hope she had been changed by. Her blog was one of the first seeds she saw the Lord bring to life in her personal relationship with Him. Undeniably His has been and continues to be a platform Haley uses to share raw and real messages of Hope with more countries than she even knew existed.As Haley has grown in Christ over the past four years, her love for Jesus and sharing Him has increased. Fully Consecrated is a printed collection of the stories God has given to Haley in her blogging ministry. The lessons she has received and learned from the Lord have not all been easy. Many of them have been found in the most vulnerable and unexpected places.Through Fully Consecrated, Haley desires for every reader to take hold of the abundant life God has in store for them. She realizes that life is short and what we do with our time matters.Are you longing to embrace Jesus in a deeper and more intimate way? What are you holding onto that God is asking you to lay down? Will you lay down what you think is good so that you can receive God's best?I challenge you to consecrate yourself fully to Jesus Christ no matter how tired, empty, or broken you may feel. There is more to living than what the world offers. We will only ever be satisfied whenever our souls are consecrated and given fully to our sweet Father.
Book Synopsis Egyptian Women in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt by : Aida Beshara
Download or read book Egyptian Women in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt written by Aida Beshara and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Egyptian and foreign historians have testified to the high status of women in all spheres of life during the ancient Egyptian period. Women were queens in their own right; once, the chief physician was a woman. In the spiritual life, there were priestesses and female musicians and dancers serving in temples. This book deals with the role of women in the Christian Coptic Orthodox Church, which was established in the first century AD. The Coptic church has been blessed with thousands of female martyrs and saints, some of whom are of worldwide fame. There are fourteen female saints after whom Coptic churches in Egypt are named. The Virgin St. Mary is the most prominent of them. The two Egyptian saints Demianah and Refqah are also popular. Sts. Verena and Regula are Egyptian saints who were martyred and buried in Switzerland. St. Verena evangelized in Switzerland and taught Swiss maidens hygiene practices. There are more than eighty monuments consecrated to St. Verena in Switzerland. The Egyptian St. Sophia has a world-famous church in her name in Istanbul, Turkey. Unfortunately, after the Arab invasion of Egypt in the seventh century, the role of women in the church diminished considerably. However, since the middle of the twentieth century, a great revival of the role of women has occurred; more women have entered religious life as nuns and deaconesses, serving as Sunday school teachers, writing books about the church, and even teaching in Coptic seminaries. My goal is for this book to reach English language readers all over the world and enlighten them about the contribution of women in the service of Christianity through the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt.
Book Synopsis Between Desert and City: The Coptic Orthodox Church Today by : Nelly van Doorn-Harder
Download or read book Between Desert and City: The Coptic Orthodox Church Today written by Nelly van Doorn-Harder and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt represents the largest Christian community in the Middle East today, but few works have appeared that discuss the situation of the contemporary Church. The Coptic Church has preserved ancient Christian traditions in a unique way. Not only has it survived centuries of living in a predominantly Muslim environment, but it has also managed to renew itself continuously during its long history. This book covers, for the first time, the most important aspects of the contemporary Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt and in the diaspora, bringing together new knowledge which would otherwise remain largely inaccessible except to a small number of specialists.
Book Synopsis Women of Assur and Kanesh by : Cécile Michel
Download or read book Women of Assur and Kanesh written by Cécile Michel and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2020-09-18 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivid sources for reconstructing the lives of Assyrian women In this collection Cécile Michel translates into English texts related to wives and daughters of merchants and to their activities in nineteenth-century BCE Aššur and Kaneš. Discovered in excavations of the Old Assyrian private archives at Kültepe (ancient Kaneš) in Central Anatolia, these letters sent from Aššur reflect the preeminent role of Assyrian women within the family and in the domestic economy, as well as their contribution to long-distance trade. Contracts and other legal texts excavated at Kültepe attest to Assyrian and Anatolian women as parties in marriage and divorce contracts, last wills, loans, and purchase contracts. These unique finds paint a vivid portrait of women who aspire to be socially respected and provide a rare opportunity to reconstruct their daily lives as both businesswomen and housewives. Features More than three hundred letters and documents transliterated and translated with commentary An overview of the study of women and gender in Assyriology A reconstruction of women's roles as textile producers, investors, and creditors within a long-distance commercial network Cécile Michel is Senior Researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, France) and Professor at Hamburg University (Germany). She is a member of the international group of scholars in charge of the decipherment of the 23,000 tablets found at Kültepe (ancient Kaneš) and of the Kültepe archaeological team. She is the coeditor of and contributor to The Role of Women in Work and Society in the Ancient Near East (2016), Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD (2017), and Mathematics, Administrative and Economic Activities in Ancient Worlds (2020).
Book Synopsis Women Who Belong by : Marsha R. Robinson
Download or read book Women Who Belong written by Marsha R. Robinson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why bother to invert the history of Western women? We must do so to fight an insidious, fallacious assumption that patriarchy is universal and eternal, and we must do so to nullify the amnesic effects of Domesticity’s potent semantics. We must resist this two-pronged attack that reduces women to powerless incubators. When we invert the patriarchal hegemony and center the ordinary woman as empowered owner and hostess to her life story, we find women, rich and poor, who chose when, where, how and if they would cooperate with the rules of patriarchy, rules often supported by other women. Our heroines demanded the rights due them for properly occupying their societal place in the home, in church or on the street corner. We find this to be consistent across time and space. We start in the seventeenth century with European women on three continents: Europe, North Africa and North America. We present Isabel de Jésus, Alida Schuyler Van Rensselaer Livingston, and soldiers’ wives, widows and femes sole of the Tangier and Gibraltar garrisons. Here we have women of different religions, language groups and social classes, and they all used patriarchal laws to protect their rights. We move across time to the turn of the twentieth century in Ireland, Puerto Rico and the United States where we find women as wives of rich men in Toledo’s Woman Suffrage Association, as middle class professionals in the civilizing missions of the Christian Church in Puerto Rico, the magdalen homes of Ireland, and the eugenics movement in the US, and as sex workers serving tradesmen in Ireland. Again, these women manipulated the legal systems and demanded the powers due them from legislators, mission boards, and judges. The microhistories of women in this volume adulterate the assumption of universal and eternal patriarchy. As these women claimed the rights due them for properly occupying their prescribed social roles, they also created alliances with men who partnered with them in their feminist projects. Why should we invert Women’s history with microhistory? We must do so to liberate men and women from fallacious, patriarchal oppression.
Book Synopsis Women Deacons? Essays with Answers by : Phyllis Zagano
Download or read book Women Deacons? Essays with Answers written by Phyllis Zagano and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of restoring women to the ordained diaconate surfaced during the Second Vatican Council and continued to resound in academic and pastoral circles well after the diaconate was restored as a permanent order in the church in the West. This volume contains twelve essays—five translated from Italian, three translated from French, and four in their original English—that answer the questions about the history and possible future of women deacons. Essays by: Yves Congar, OP Philippe Delhaye Peter Hünermann Valerie A. Karras Corrado Marucci, SJ Pietro Sorci, OFM Jennifer H. Stiefel Cipriano Vagaggini, OSB Cam Phyllis Zagano Ugo Zanetti, OSB
Download or read book Fathers in God? written by Colin Podmore and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical Anglican understanding of a bishop is expressed in the Canons of the Church of England with the phrase ‘father in God’ – wording that remains unchanged by the decision to ordain women as bishops. This volume sets out the understanding of priestly and episcopal ministry from biblical, historical and theological viewpoints of the Catholic wing of the Anglican church. It sets out in a non-polemic way the rationale of those who defend a traditional view of priesthood as male while being fully a part of the Church of England. It incorporates elements of the landmark book Consecrated Women? and brings the discussion fully up to date in light of the General Synod’s decision to ordain women to the episcopate in 2014. Leading Anglo-Catholic figures explore the topic from a range of perspectives, including Martin Warner, the Bishop of Chichester; on living in love and charity with your neighbour; Jonathan Baker, the Bishop of Fulham, on consecrated women; Emma Forward, a member of General Synod, on feminism in a post-feminist age; Geoffrey Rowell, formerly Bishop of Europe, on mission, scripture, tradition and church unity; and Aidan Nicholls OP, a Dominican priest and academic, offers a Roman Catholic perspective.
Book Synopsis Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38) in Ancient Jewish Exegesis by : Esther Menn
Download or read book Judah and Tamar (Genesis 38) in Ancient Jewish Exegesis written by Esther Menn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of Genesis 38 in three interpretive writings shows how new meanings emerge through encounters between the biblical text and later Jewish communities. A literary reading within the canon suggests that the story of Judah and Tamar points to the morally ambiguous origins of David's lineage. Ancient Jewish exegesis, however, challenges this understanding. The Testament of Judah interprets Genesis 38 as the story of a warrior king's tragic downfall. Targum Neofiti develops it to illustrate the concept "sanctification of the (divine) Name". and Genesis Rabbah portrays it as a series of providential events issuing in the royal and messianic lineage. Esther Marie Menn pioneers a fresh approach to the study of biblical interpretation by analyzing the relation between interpretative genre, altered plot structure, and cultural values.
Book Synopsis Harlot or Holy Woman? by : Phyllis A. Bird
Download or read book Harlot or Holy Woman? written by Phyllis A. Bird and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harlot or Holy Woman? presents an exhaustive study of qedešah, a Hebrew word meaning “consecrated woman” but rendered “prostitute” or “sacred prostitute” in Bible translations. Reexamining biblical and extrabiblical texts, Phyllis A. Bird questions how qedešah came to be associated with prostitution and offers an alternative explanation of the term, one that suggests a wider participation for women as religious specialists in Israel’s early cultic practice. Bird’s study reviews all the texts from classical antiquity cited as sources for an institution of “sacred prostitution,” alongside a comprehensive analysis of the cuneiform texts from Mesopotamia containing the cognate qadištu and Ugaritic texts containing the masculine cognate qdš. Through these texts, Bird presents a portrait of women dedicated to a deity, engaged in a variety of activities from cultic ritual to wet-nursing, and sharing a common generic name with the qedešah of ancient Israel. In the final chapter she returns to biblical texts, reexamining them in light of the new evidence from the ancient Near East. Considering alternative models for constructing women’s religious roles in ancient Israel, this wholly original study offers new interpretations of key texts and raises questions about the nature of Israelite religion as practiced outside the royal cult and central sanctuary.
