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Title: Extravagant Affections: A Feminist Sacramental Theology by Susan Ross ISBN: 0-8264-1320-X Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Stunning insight into gender, sacrament, and priesthood
Comment: Despite the academic mannerism besetting the opening few chapters, this is a wise, precisely argued, absolutely fascinating book by a Roman Catholic theologian, ostensibly for other Roman Catholics, but in fact priceless for any thoughtful Christian who takes the sacraments seriously. She points out that in the sacraments, priests do in church and figuratively what women do at home and literally: give birth, fix meals, tend the dying, mediate conflicts & forgiveness, etc. etc. As males depend upon females for biological life and crucial early nurture, so women in churches that refuse to ordain women have to depend upon men for sacramental life and intercession--because men have appropriated the sacred through their social control of churches. The problem here is a lot bigger than social justice or gender equity, however: the problem is that gender exclusivity obscures the vitally important ways in which the sacraments enact how God is immanent within daily life. The book includes terrific footnotes; besides reading very widely in her field, Ross also took time to talk in depth to a whole slew of ordinary women active in their own churches. I'd recommend this book without qualification for college-educated women's groups in churches,especially Catholic, Lutheran, or Episcopal ones.
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Title: The Church Women Want: Catholic Women in Dialogue by Elizabeth A. Johnson ISBN: 0824519795 Publisher: Herder & Herder Pub. Date: 01 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Christian Sacraments in a Postmodern World: A Theology for the Third Millennium by Kenan B. Osborne ISBN: 0809139049 Publisher: Paulist Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Truly Our Sister: A Theology of Mary in the Communion of Saints by Elizabeth A. Johnson ISBN: 0826414737 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: A People Adrift : The Crisis of the Roman Catholic Church in America by Peter Steinfels ISBN: 0684836637 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality by Eugene Kennedy ISBN: 0312266375 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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