Awakenings: Prophetic Reflections - Softcover

Chittister, Joan D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626984646 ISBN 13: 9781626984646

Verlag: Orbis Books (USA), 2022

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Joan Chittister is one of the most popular and influential spiritual writers today. Apart from her scores of bestselling books and articles, she has contributed essays to dozens of other books. Collected here are two dozen of her best and most representative pieces, covering three essential themes: Women in the Church, Seeds of a New Spirituality, and the Monastic Vision. Together they provide a guide to her essential, and prophetic wisdom.

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Joan Chittister, a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, PA, is one of the most influential religious and social leaders of our time. She is the author of over 60 books, including (with Orbis) The Way of the Cross, A Passion for Life, There is a Season, The Way We Were, and Illuminated Life.

Mary Lou Kownacki, also a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, is the former executive director of the Alliance for International Monasticism, USA. In 2006 she was honored by Pax Christi USA as their Pope Paul VI Teacher of Peace.


Mary Hembrow Snyder is professor emerita of Catholic Theology & Religious Studies who taught at Mercyhurst University for over three decades. She edited Spiritual Questions for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of Joan D. Chittister and co-edited Joan Chittister: Essential Writings with Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB. Dr. Snyder is also an Erie Benedictine Oblate.

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AWAKENINGS Prophetic Reflections

Joan Chittister Edited by Mary Lou Kownacki and Mary Hembrow Snyder

Foreword by Tom Roberts

Cover design: Regina Gelfer

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Theology of Domination

The notion that women are inferior to men morally and intellectually and must be directed and controlled by them—the theology of domination—is a recurring concept in all the religions of the modern world. The position is, at the same time, contrary to the major tenets of creation held by each of the major religions of the world as well. The resulting subjugation and limitation of the roles of women, however, not only bring into question the integrity of the various teachings of particular religious groups but have implications for the broader social order as well.

The teaching of major religions about women derive primarily from two facets of religious philosophy: one, from the definition of the creative process which serves to explain the origins of human life, and two, from the interpretation of the creation myths of each faith which present models of basic human relationships between the sexes. It is these two concepts which are in tension with one another. The definition of the creative process identifies the manner and substance of creation. The creation myths, on the other hand, describe the roles and functions of the creatures of earth. From these two perspectives come the theological teachings about the nature and purpose of human life. From them also flow the structures, norms and interpretations of human society.

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• Verlag: Orbis Books (USA)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1626984646
• ISBN 13: 9781626984646
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 231
• Herausgeber: Kownacki Mary Lou, Snyder Mary Hembrow
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