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"A fascinating collection of ancient and contemporary readings from the cultural matrix that has shaped Western Christianity, Womanguides is a resource for understanding ideas about gender in Christian tradition and for building alternative patterns that can transform and heal."--GoogleBooks.
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"Rethinking the Christian faith from a woman's perspective has been an important advancement in modern theology. This book introduces the methods, ideas, and contributions of recent feminist theology to readers encountering the subject for the first time. Natalie Watson explores the historical background of feminist theology, discusses the value of reading Scripture from a feminist perspective, and shows how this approach can offer a critical, creative,...
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The first work to undertake a theological critique of Christian feminism as a whole, this book seeks to bring traditional faith and the feminist position into a deeper dialogue. Part one presents an overview of the historical issues raised by feminist theology. Part Two compares key feminist theological presuppositions to the prophetic interpretation of reality found in the biblical tradition.
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"Within a progressive feminist framework, [this book] approaches Christian Testament sources through analysis of legend, archaeology, and Gnostic/apocryphal traditions. [This book] exposes multiple strategies of suppression of the memory of Mary Magdalene. These are traced, from the unfinished excavations of Migdal (Magdala) to the conflation and distortion that produce legends, to the diminishment and erasure in much contemporary scholarship of the...
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Female sexual imagery in Hosea / T. Drorah Setel -- Every two minutes : battered women and feminist interpretation / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- Feminist interpretation : a method of correlation / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- The will to choose or to reject : continuing our critical work / Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza -- Authority and the challenge of feminist interpretation / Letty M. Russell -- Postscript : jottings on the journey / Phyllis Trible....
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This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture - from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Beautifully written, lucidly conceived, and far-ranging in its implications, this work will help readers gain a better appreciation of the complexity of the social forces - mostly androcentric - that have shaped the symbolism of the sacred feminine. At the same time,...
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In recent years feminist scholarship has increasingly focused on the importance of the body and its representations in virtually every social, cultural, and intellectual context. Many have argued that because women are more closely identified with their bodies than men are, they have access to privileged and different kinds of knowledge. In this landmark new book, Paula Cooey offers a new perspective on the significance of the body in the context...
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The idea of a feminist approach to Scripture often produces knee-jerk reactions that one's in for mangled language at best and an anti-Christian attitude at worst. In this clear, highly readable work, Nicholas King explains the feminist approach to Scripture and the reasons and aims behind it. The author makes the approach accessible and sympathetic to those both interested in and alarmed by the topic.
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When God Becomes Goddess suggests that one way in which Americans may keep the traditional Western idea of God alive - paradoxically - is to embrace the Goddess of feminist theologies under the rubric of "enactment theology," Grigg demonstrates how these cutting edge theologies offer much more than critique of patriarchy; indeed, her gender aside, Grigg suggests that the Goddess may create an avenue through which the concept of God might be rescued...
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"This ground-breaking commentary gathers the work of many outstanding women scholars, who introduce each book of the Bible with an extended discussion of general critical issues of the book and a narrative summary of its content. They follow with a commentary on those sections of the book that have particular relevance to women and enable readers to understand the significance of the presence or absence of women. Specifically, they focus on portions...
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