Woman as Prophet in the Home and the World: Interdisciplinary Investigations - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498542085 ISBN 13 : 9781498542081

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2016

Synopsis

This first-ever interdisciplinary study of woman as prophet shows that, in these troubling times, ordinary women-especially Christian women-need to function as prophets by proclaiming, in word and deed, the indispensability of lovingly seeking the welfare of others. More specifically, social science shows that the person-centered love prophesied by women prophets is able to meet interpersonal challenges within the home and world, while philosophy and theology establish that women are able to excel as prophets due to the virtuous dispositions inculcated by femininity, the choice to be caring, a God-centered spirituality, and a pro-life humanitarian/personalist feminism that welcomes male collaborators. Facilitating the ability of Christian women to prophesy love are Baptismal graces, Thomistic virtues, and a much needed prophetic Marian ecclesiology based on what John Paul II calls the "prophetism of femininity."

These interdisciplinary findings provide an essential resource for educators and students of humanity, the theology of women, and evangelization. These findings emerge, first, from an investigation into the cognitive and ontological underpinnings of what John Paul II called the "feminine genius." A second set of findings emerges from exploring the prophetic dimensions of the feminine genius, secular feminism's need to adopt the insights of Christianity, and the ability of femininity's prophetism to recast both femininity and feminism as Marian prophecies. A third set of findings arises from analyzing the spirituality of women prophets within the Christian tradition by considering the conditions necessary for prophesying, explicating requisite Thomistic virtues, and delving into the spirituality of Hildegard, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich, and Teresa of Avila. A fourth set of findings arises from innovative studies of polarization, secularization, lust, romantic love, the conditions whereby mothers with careers can flourish, and the ability of nuns to combat racism in a small Midwestern town.

Overall, these interdisciplinary investigations explicate the theology of women and show that women who prophesy love, either in the order of grace or nature, can help heal lives, families, and culture.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

R. Mary Hayden Lemmons is associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and president of University Faculty for Life.

Meg Wilkes Karraker is professor of sociology and family business center fellow at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is author of Families with Futures: Family Studies into the Twenty-first Century (2012, coauthored with Janet Grochowski) and Global Families (2013) and editor of The Other People: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Migration (2014).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498542085
• ISBN 13: 9781498542081
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 298
• Éditeur: Lemmons R. Mary Hayden
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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