| Description |
xii, 280 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Boston College church in the 21st century series |
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Boston College church in the 21st century series.
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| Note |
"A Herder and Herder book". |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-268) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword: Speaking as women / Colleen M. Griffith -- Introduction: Creative fidelity in challenging times / Colleen M. Griffith -- Reenewing the vision -- Articulating the vision anew : the banquet of the creed / Elizabeth Johnson -- Knit together by the spirit as church / M. Shawn Copeland -- The possibilities of creating church : a personal reflection / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- Knowledge as power -- Biblical interpretation and women's experience / Karen A. Barta -- Sisters of Thecla : knowledge, power, and change in the church / Francine Cardman -- Women within church law : shifts, expectations, and strategies in current times / Lynn Jarrell -- Wise as serpents, innocent as doves : strategic appropriation of Catholic social teaching / Margaret R. Pfeil -- Insistence on dialogue -- Unknowing in the place of understanding : the theological fruits of dialogue / Jeannine Hill Fletcher -- The dialogical imperative : listening to concerned and engaged African women / Teresia M. Hinga -- Asian women and dialogue / Gemma T. Cruz -- Feeling through the limits of conversation / Michele Saracino -- Politics of the hearth -- For the sins of the parents : Roman Catholic ethics and the politics of the family / Cristina Traina -- Children and the common good : protection and participation / Mary M. Doyle Roche -- When pregnancy hits home : recognizing the need for familial and ecclesial solidarity / Angela Senander -- Fostering the next generation of faithful women / Jane E. Regan -- Feminist ascetical practices -- Making room for beauty / Susan A. Ross -- Insistent inclusion : intersections of race, class, and gender / Diana Hayes -- Practicing justice with spirit / Mary Jo Leddy -- Claiming and imagining practices of public engagement / Rosemary P. Carbine -- Attending to emerging discourses -- Through the leaven of popular Catholic practices : women transforming church / Nancy Pineda-Madrid -- Catholic sexual ethics in the twenty-first century / Patricia Beattie Jung -- Practical theology in global Christian contexts / Susan Abraham -- Conclusion: Upholding hope -- On not losing heart : Catherine of Siena and the strategies of prayer and friendship / Mary Catherine Hilkert. |
| Subject |
Women in the Catholic Church.
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Women -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church.
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| Added Author |
Griffith, Colleen M.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Prophetic witness. New York : Crossroad Pub. Co., 2009 (OCoLC)646131215 |
| ISBN |
9780824525262 alkaline paper |
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0824525264 alkaline paper |
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