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Mystics, Visionaries, and Prophets

Author : Shawn Madigan
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451416343
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book Mystics, Visionaries, and Prophets written by Shawn Madigan and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of Catholic Press Association Book-of-the-Year Award-Spirituality Unique in its range and depth, this lavish anthology for the first time captures in a single volume the most notable spiritual writings of leading women from all periods of Christian history. Because spirituality involves more than simply prayer and piety, Madigan has selected women whose quests for intimacy with God also involves some visionary experience or social witness. Ranging from Perpetua in the third century to Mother Teresa and Edwina Gately in this century, her volume includes writings from both European women and, in the modern period, Asian, American, and African American women. Apart from redressing the heavy gender imbalance of most histories of Christianity, this volume also provides strong historical introductions to and bibliographies of the twenty-six women whose writings are generously excerpted. Women included in this volume are: Perpetua the Martyr Pelagia the Actress Brigit of Ireland Balthild the Queen of Neustria Dhuoda of Septimania Hildegard of Bingen Heloise Mechthild of Magdeburg Gertrude the Great Hadewijch Julian of Norwich Catherine of Siena Margery Kempe Teresa of Avila Jane Frances de Chantal Sojourner Truth Maria Stewart Gabrielle Bossis Dorothy Day Caryll Houselander Pauli Murray Laura Lopez Silvia Maribel Arriola Mother Teresa Cho Wha Soon Mercy Amba Oduyoye Edwina Gately

Women Mystics in Medieval Europe

Author : Emilie Zum Brunn
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Women Mystics in Medieval Europe written by Emilie Zum Brunn and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text revives the works of five powerful mystics of the Middle Ages and provides a valuable inspirational resource for all spiritual seekers.

Women Mystics, Visionaries, Prophets

Author : Shawn Madigan
Publisher : Pastoral Press
ISBN 13 : 9781569290538
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Women Mystics, Visionaries, Prophets written by Shawn Madigan and published by Pastoral Press. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set presents the context, life and text extracts of 26 women representing 20 centuries of Christianity, found in diverse cultures, vocations and personalities. Among the women included are: Perpetua, Brigid, Hildgard, Heloise Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Jane Frances de Chantal, Sojourner Truth, Dorothy Day, Caryl Houselander, Mother Teresa and Edwina Gately.

Daughters of Light

Author : Rebecca Larson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807848975
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Daughters of Light written by Rebecca Larson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than a thousand Quaker female ministers were active in the Anglo-American world before the Revolutionary War, when the Society of Friends constituted the colonies' third-largest religious group. Some of these women circulated throughout British North

Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415969441
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Women and Gender in Medieval Europe written by Margaret Schaus and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing

Author : Carolyn Dinshaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521796385
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing written by Carolyn Dinshaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing seeks to recover the lives and particular experiences of medieval women by concentrating on various kinds of texts: the texts they wrote themselves as well as texts that attempted to shape, limit, or expand their lives. The first section investigates the roles traditionally assigned to medieval women (as virgins, widows, and wives); it also considers female childhood and relations between women. The second section explores social spaces, including textuality itself: for every surviving medieval manuscript bespeaks collaborative effort. It considers women as authors, as anchoresses 'dead to the world', and as preachers and teachers in the world staking claims to authority without entering a pulpit. The final section considers the lives and writings of remarkable women, including Marie de France, Heloise, Joan of Arc, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, and female lyricists and romancers whose names are lost, but whose texts survive.

Women Christian Mystics Speak to Our Times

Author : David B. Perrin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9781580510950
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Women Christian Mystics Speak to Our Times written by David B. Perrin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Christian Mystics Speak to Our Times is an ambitious collection of essays by leading scholars that connects the modern world with the timeless wisdom of women such as Catherine of Siena, Hildegard of Bingen, Th-rFse of Lisieux, Mary of Bizye, Julian of Norwich, Teresa of Avila, Birgitta of Sweden, Hadewijch of Brabant, Agnes of Blarmbekin, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite de Porete, and Catherine of Genoa. While emphasizing the holy lives of these women, this book also reveals their lasting contributions to theology and spirituality. Bound by a common belief that women Christian mystics have much to teach us today, these accessible essays are geared toward classrooms and educated lay readers.

Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope

Author : Barbara Will
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512824089
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope written by Barbara Will and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years have passed since Cornel West's book Race Matters rose to the top of the bestseller lists in 1993. Yet his book remains as relevant as ever to American culture--even more so, if one considers its influence on contemporary racial justice movements such as Black Lives Matter, prison justice, and the fight for police reform. Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope, an edited volume of essays by leading scholars in Black studies, religious studies, and social justice history, looks back to the original 1993 text and forward into the future of racial understanding and healing in our current century, responding to Dr. West's own repeated insistence that we can only understand our present and future by looking back. By reengaging with West's book at this seminal moment, Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope offers new points of entry into the thorny issues that the 1993 text addressed: the challenge of leadership in a culture marked by the legacy of white supremacy; the limited value of liberal affirmative action programs in promoting the affirmation of Black humanity; the dangerous seductions of African American conservatism and the question of Black self-regard (what West called "black nihilism"); the necessity and difficulty of cross-race solidarity and cross-religious affinity; the need to channel legitimate Black rage over untenable conditions of existence into productive opportunities and viewpoints. All of these issues are even more marked in American society today. The voices collected in this volume are the legitimate intellectual heirs of the original Race Matters. With essays that span the topics of history, politics, philosophy, religion, cultural studies, music, and aesthetics, Prophetic Leadership and Visionary Hope is as wide-ranging as the thinker whose ideas it engages, interrogates, and celebrates. Contributors:Nkosi Du Bois Anderson, Paul A. Bové, Matthew M. Briones, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Susannah Heschel, Lucius T. Outlaw Jr., Andrew Prevot, Brandon M. Terry, Cornel West, Barbara Will.

Women and the Reformation

Author : Kirsi Stjerna
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444359045
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Reformation written by Kirsi Stjerna and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women and the Reformation gathers historical materials and personal accounts to provide a comprehensive and accessible look at the status and contributions of women as leaders in the 16th century Protestant world. Explores the new and expanded role as core participants in Christian life that women experienced during the Reformation Examines diverse individual stories from women of the times, ranging from biographical sketches of the ex-nun Katharina von Bora Luther and Queen Jeanne d’Albret, to the prophetess Ursula Jost and the learned Olimpia Fulvia Morata Brings together social history and theology to provide a groundbreaking volume on the theological effects that these women had on Christian life and spirituality Accompanied by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/stjerna offering student’s access to the writings by the women featured in the book

Visionary Women

Author : Rosemary Radford Ruether
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 150648851X
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Visionary Women written by Rosemary Radford Ruether and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Visionary Women, influential feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether glimpses into the souls of three medieval mystics. Hildegard of Bingen, a self-taught theologian who developed a mystical secret language used in her community of mystics, became a traveling preacher and author. At the age of forty, Mechthild of Magdeburg was commanded by God to write down her visions, which resulted in seven books. Julian of Norwich prayed as a young child that she would see Christ's passion, that she would get deathly ill, and that she would long for God--all in her desire to focus her life solely on God--and He answered all three. Ruether describes the women as prophets with a God-given message for the church and society of their time. Her sympathetic overview evokes the new religious horizons they envisioned for Christianity. She discusses the three women's beliefs about God, theology, and their identity. Though they faced adversity, they challenged these notions as bold women in the faith, secure in their strong relationship with God. Visionary Women is an adaption from Ruether's award-winning book, Women and Redemption: A Theological History. Readers will join in the long tradition of keeping the mystics' messages alive and relevant.

Promised Bodies

Author : Patricia Dailey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023153552X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Promised Bodies written by Patricia Dailey and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Christian tradition, especially in the works of Paul, Augustine, and the exegetes of the Middle Ages, the body is a twofold entity consisting of inner and outer persons that promises to find its true materiality in a time to come. A potentially transformative vehicle, it is a dynamic mirror that can reflect the work of the divine within and substantially alter its own materiality if receptive to divine grace. The writings of Hadewijch of Brabant, a thirteenth-century beguine, engage with this tradition in sophisticated ways both singular to her mysticism and indicative of the theological milieu of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Crossing linguistic and historical boundaries, Patricia Dailey connects the embodied poetics of Hadewijch's visions, writings, and letters to the work of Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, Marguerite of Oingt, and other mystics and visionaries. She establishes new criteria to more consistently understand and assess the singularity of women's mystical texts and, by underscoring the similarities between men's and women's writings of the time, collapses traditional conceptions of gender as they relate to differences in style, language, interpretative practices, forms of literacy, and uses of textuality.

Four Women Doctors of the Church

Author : Malone, Mary T.
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608337057
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Four Women Doctors of the Church written by Malone, Mary T. and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and engrossing work brings to life the trials and triumphs of four inspiring women, Hildegard of Bingen, Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Therese of Lisieux, whose bravery and intellectual prowess opened the door for new discussions on the role of women in the Church.

West Africa's Women of God

Author : Robert M. Baum
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253017912
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book West Africa's Women of God written by Robert M. Baum and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: West Africa's Women of God examines the history of direct revelation from Emitai, the Supreme Being, which has been central to the Diola religion from before European colonization to the present day. Robert M. Baum charts the evolution of this movement from its origins as an exclusively male tradition to one that is largely female. He traces the response of Diola to the distinct challenges presented by conquest, colonial rule, and the post-colonial era. Looking specifically at the work of the most famous Diola woman prophet, Alinesitoué, Baum addresses the history of prophecy in West Africa and its impact on colonialism, the development of local religious traditions, and the role of women in religious communities.

The Female Mystic

Author : Andrea Janelle Dickens
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857712616
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Female Mystic written by Andrea Janelle Dickens and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages saw a flourishing of mysticism that was astonishing for its richness and distinctiveness. The medieval period was unlike any other period of Christianity in producing people who frequently claimed visions of Christ and Mary, uttered prophecies, gave voice to ecstatic experiences, recited poems and songs said to emanate directly from God and changed their ways of life as a result of these special revelations. Many recipients of these alleged divine gifts were women. Yet the female contribution to western Europe's intellectual and religious development is still not well understood. Popular or lay religion has been overshadowed by academic theology, which was predominantly the theology of men. This timely book rectifies the neglect by examining a number of women whose lives exemplify traditions which were central to medieval theology but whose contributions have tended to be dismissed as 'merely spiritual' by today's scholars. In their different ways, visionaries like Richeldis de Faverches (founder of the Holy House at Walsingham, or 'England's Nazareth'), the learned Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Brabant (exemplary voice of the Beguine tradition of love mysticism), charismatic traveller and pilgrim Margery Kempe and anchoress Julian of Norwich all challenged traditional male scholastic theology. Designed for the use of undergraduate student and general reader alike, this attractive survey provides an introduction to thirteen remarkable women and sets their ideas in context.

Prophets Abroad

Author : Rosalynn Voaden
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859914253
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Prophets Abroad written by Rosalynn Voaden and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1996 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the influence of continental holy women on their English counterparts.

The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology

Author : Kenneth G Appold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009302973
Total Pages : 921 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Reformation Era Theology written by Kenneth G Appold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 921 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies Reformation-Era theology by comparing how various denominations formulated and treated topics, thus encouraging ecumenical dialogue. It will remain the definitive place for teachers and students of theology to begin any further study into the origins and formulation of their denomination's teachings during this period.

Visions and Longings

Author : Monica Furlong
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834829304
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Visions and Longings written by Monica Furlong and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1997-04-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women mystics of medieval Europe represent the very first feminine voices heard in a world where women were nearly silent. As such, they are striking and unusual, strange, powerful and urgent. Monica Furlong uses key selections from among these women's own writings and writings about them by their contemporaries, along with her own assessment of them, to open up their contributions to a wide popular audience. The eleven women represented in this anthology were housewives, visionaries, abbesses, beguines, recluses, and nuns who wrote between the eleventh and fourteenth centuries. They include: • Héloïse, the scholar and abbess, whose letters to Abelard are treasure of medieval literature • Hildegard of Bingen, the visionary Rhineland nun • Clare of Assisi, the close friend of Saint Francis and founder of the Poor Clares • Catherine of Siena, an influential spiritual counselor whose book, Dialogue, consists of a debate between herself and God • Julian of Norwich, the English hermitess who spent the greater part of her life meditating on and coming to understand the striking visions she received as a young woman • and many others