Catholicism : end or beginning? / Mary Daly ; edited by Meg Stapleton Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Meg Stapleton, editor.

Standardized Title:

Catholicism (Cambridge University Press)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Daly, Mary, 1928-2010.

Daly, Mary.

Catholic Church.

Feminist theology.

Women in Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Publication in 1968 of The Church and the Second Sex turned Mary Daly into a leading – arguably the first – Catholic feminist theologian. She then, in 1972, preached an incendiary sermon at Harvard Memorial Church, 'left behind centuries of darkness,' as she put it, and walked out of patriarchal religion. Daly next established herself, with Beyond God the Father (1973), as a post-Christian feminist philosopher. In between these trailblazing writings, she began to draft another book entitled Catholicism: End or Beginning? In the moment that she abandoned the text, she also seemingly renounced the institutional Roman Catholic Church. This volume comprises that lost, unfinished manuscript – remarkably rediscovered – augmented by complementary chapters from six preeminent feminist writers. Though partial, it completes the corpus of an iconic figure in radical liberationist and Catholic thought, delving deep into the mind of a woman who dared to leap into uncharted territories of faith and philosophical imagination"-- Cambridge Core.

Contents:

Faith as ultimate concern

The mystery of being and the Catholic substance

The fall : false consciousness

The arrival of new being

The many minds of Mary Daly / Mary E. Hunt

Reformist Catholicism : the road not taken for Mary Daly / Lisa Sowle Cahill

Feminist intrigues at the limits of schizoid theology / Siobhán Garrigan

Abstraction, mysticism, and revolution : From Catholicism : End or beginning? to Beyond God the Father and Pure Lust / Jennifer Rycenga

Catholicism : End or beginning? An open-ended journey toward a theology of difference / Zahra Moballegh.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed January 25, 2026).

Contains:

Container of: Daly, Mary, 1928-2010. Works. Selections.

Other Format:

Print version: Catholicism.

ISBN:

9781009180641

1009180649

9781009180627

1009180622

OCLC:

1548374108

Publisher Number:

CIPO000298758

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license