Women, writing, theology : transforming a tradition of exclusion / Emily A. Holmes and Wendy Farley, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holmes, Emily A., 1974-

Farley, Wendy, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women theologians--History.

Women theologians.

Christian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

Christian literature.

Women authors.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 315 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, [2011]

Contents:

Introduction : mending a broken lineage / Emily A. Holmes

Fear and women's writing : choosing the better part / Michelle Voss Robetrs

A "wretched choice"? : Evangelical women and the Word / Shelly Rambo

"My God became flesh" : Angela of Foligno writing the Incarnation / Emily A. Holmes

Speaking funk : womanist insights into the lives of Syncletica and Macrina / Kendra G. Hotz

"A moor of one's own" : writing and silence in Sara Maitland's a book of silence / Leigh Pittenger

Withprayer and pen : reading Mother E. J. Dabney's what it means to pray through / Michele Jacques Early

Writing a life, writing theology : Edith Stein in the company of the Saints / Meghan T. Sweeney

Writing hunger on the body : Simone Weil's ethic of hunger and Eucharistic pracitce / Elizabeth A. Webb

The body, to be eaten, to the written : a theological reflection on the act of writing in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee / Min-Ah Cho

Not with one voice : the counterpoint of life, diaspora, women, theology, and writing / Kristine Suna-Koro

Embodying theology : motherhood as metaphone/method / marcia W. Mount Shoop

Postscript : wounded writing, healing writing / Wendy Farley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781602583764

1602583765

OCLC:

707968315