Feminist Mysticism And Images Of God

Author : Jennie S Knight
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827210516

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Feminist Mysticism and Images of God by Jennie S Knight Pdf

Feminist theologians often claim that "women's experience" is their starting point. However, most feminist theology is remarkably void of analysis of particular women's experiences of imaging God. In this book, Knight provides practical recommendations to help people transform images in the context of religious practices. What difference does it make whether we picture God as an elderly white grandfather, a nurturing African American mother, or a stranger on the bus? Jennie Knight says our image of God affects how we see ourselves, how we worship, how we treat one another, how (or whether) we work for justice, and a host of other life practices. But after years of knowing intellectually that God transcends a specific human type, Knight still struggles to make an emotional connection with God in different forms. She suspects that that struggle is why many seminarians who wrote papers about thea/theology abandon nontraditional God images once they hit parish ministry, perpetuating the practice of seeing God as a European male on a throne and all the accompanying problems that such imagery creates. Knight believes that personal and critical reflection in the context of a supportive learning community, combined with experiences of diverse images for the divine in worship, can lead to profound changes in self-image, relationship with the divine, and agency in the world. This book aims to demonstrate why and how this transformation is both possible and necessary. The popularity of The Shack, The Secret Life of Bees, Joan of Arcadia, and other works with nontraditional God-figures reveals a culture ready to embrace God in many forms. Knight examines how the church can do the same.

Author : Carolyn Wörman Sur
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:49015002139898

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The Feminine Images of God in the Visions of Saint Hildegard of Bingen's 'Scivias' by Carolyn Wörman Sur Pdf

Author : Beverly Lanzetta
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 145140431X

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Radical Wisdom by Beverly Lanzetta Pdf

Lanzetta illuminates the transformative potential of the classical tradition of women mystics, especially in light of contemporary violence against women around the world. Focusing on the contemplative process as women's journey from oppression to liberation, Lanzetta draws especially on the mysticism of Julian of Norwich and Teresa of Avila. She lays out the contemplative techniques used by mystics to achieve their highest spiritual potential and also investigates how unjust social and political conditions afflict women's souls. Lanzetta identifies a specific historical female mystical path (the via feminina) and draws contemporary conclusions for how women might understand their bodies, their rights, and their ethics.

Author : Susanne Heine
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015019849515

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Matriarchs, Goddesses, and Images of God by Susanne Heine Pdf

Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691187730

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Mirror of His Beauty by Peter Schäfer Pdf

In this beautifully realized study, Peter Schäfer investigates the origins of a female manifestation of God in Jewish mysticism. The search itself is a fascinating exploration of the idea of a feminine divinity. And Schäfer's surprising but persuasive conclusions yield deeper understanding of the complex but frequently intimate relationship between Christianity and Judaism--and of the development of religious concepts more generally. Toward the end of the twelfth century, a small book titled the Bahir (Light) appeared in Provence. The first document of Judaism's emerging kabbalistic movement, it introduced a completely new view of God, one that included a divine potency that was essentially female. This female divinity was portrayed both as a mediator between Jews and God and as part of the Godhead itself. Examining Judaic history from the biblical Wisdom tradition to the Middle Ages, Schäfer finds some precedents for the Kabbalah's feminine divinity. But he cannot account for her forceful appearance in twelfth-century southern France without reference to the immediate Christian environment, particularly the flourishing veneration of the Virgin Mary. Indeed, twelfth-century Jews and Christians were simultaneously rediscovering the feminine as an aspect of the Godhead after having abandoned it in favor of either an abstract, disembodied God or an exclusively male one. In proposing that the medieval cult of Mary--rather than eastern Gnosticism--is the appropriate framework for understanding the feminine elements in Jewish mysticism, Mirror of His Beauty represents a sea change in Kabbalah and Jewish-Christian cultural studies. It shifts our attention from the Byzantine East to the Latin Christian West. And in contrast to histories that treat the development of Judaism and Christianity in isolation, it leads us to a fuller understanding of Jews and Christians living in proximity, aware of each other.

Author : Mary C. Grey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Feminist theology
ISBN : OCLC:1280772379

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Introducing Feminist Images of God by Mary C. Grey Pdf

Author : Grace Jantzen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0521479266

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Power, Gender and Christian Mysticism by Grace Jantzen Pdf

In the western Christian tradition, the mystic was seen as having direct access to God, and therefore great authority. In this study, Dr Jantzen discusses how men of power defined and controlled who should count as a mystic, and thus who would have power: women were pointedly excluded. This makes her book of special interest to those in gender studies and medieval history. Its main argument, however, is philosophical. Because the mystical has gone through many social constructions, the modern philosophical assumption that mysticism is essentially about intense subjective experiences is misguided. This view is historically inaccurate, and perpetuates the same gendered struggle for authority which characterises the history of western christendom. This book is the first on the subject to take issues of gender seriously, and to use these as a point of entry for a deconstructive approach to Christian mysticism.

Author : Fredrica Harris Thompsett
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819229229

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Looking Forward, Looking Backward by Fredrica Harris Thompsett Pdf

* A wide-ranging exploration of the past, present, and future effects of women's ordination on the church * Edited by a well-respected theologian and featuring a diversity of voices from across the Anglican Communion This new book gauges the current and future impact and implications of women's ordination on the church, preaching, pastoral care, the episcopate, and on lay women across the Anglican Communion. The editor draws upon a rich variety of writers and thinkers for this new book.

Author : Naomi Goldenberg
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1980-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807011118

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Changing of The Gods by Naomi Goldenberg Pdf

Feminism and the End of Traditional Religions

Author : Carol P. Christ
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1403960836

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She Who Changes by Carol P. Christ Pdf

It was only recently that people began to refer to God, occasionally, as “she.” Is it now possible to re-imagine divine power as a female force deeply related to the changing world? If so, then we can understand the deeper meaning of female images of divine power including depictions such as “The Goddess.” Carol Christ offers a new look at these female images of God in She Who Changes. She shows how many traditional ideas about divine power reject the female body and connection to the natural world. She looks at the work of female theologians in Judaism, Christianity, and various religions that worship "The Goddess" to explore the way in which they are re-imagining both divine and human power as embodied both in a changing world and deeply related to all beings.

Author : Joan Chamberlain Engelsman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1888602759

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The Feminine Dimension of the Divine by Joan Chamberlain Engelsman Pdf

Departing from the traditional image of God as masculine, Joan Chamberlain Engelsman examines the feminine dimension of the divine. She recovers female images of the divine, examining the goddesses Demeter, Isis and in particular, Sophia, to demonstrate how the feminine aspect of God was repressed in Christianity. This revised edition contains a new preface, introduction and updated bibliography by the author. Some books are written so well that they attract different kinds of readers as times change. The Feminine Dimension of the Divine is such a book. The spiritual needs and interest of both men and women have changed enough to merit a new edition of this superbly crafted, scholarly study of Sophia. -Janet Forsythe Fishburn, Dean of Theological School, Drew University Joan Chamberlain Engelsman is a well-known author and lecturer in the fields of psychology and spirituality. She is a faculty member at Drew University and is a noted consultant on family violence, director of the Clergy Partnership on Domestic Violence. She is the author of The Queen's Cloak: A Myth for Mid-Life.

Author : C. D. Sebastian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788132236467

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The Cloud of Nothingness by C. D. Sebastian Pdf

​This book explores ‘nothingness’, the negative way found in Buddhist and Christian traditions, with a focused and comparative approach. It examines the works of Nagarjuna (c. 150 CE), a Buddhist monk, philosopher and one of the greatest thinkers of classical India, and those of John of the Cross (1542-1591), a Carmelite monk, outstanding Spanish poet, and one of the greatest mystical theologians. The conception of nothingness in both the thinkers points to a paradox of linguistic transcendence and provides a novel insight into via negativa. This is the first full-length work comparing nothingness (emptiness) in Nagarjuna (Mahayana Buddhism) and John of the Cross (Christianity) in any language. It augments the comparative approach found in Buddhist-Christian comparative philosophy and theology. This book is of especial interest to academics of Buddhist and Christian studies searching for avenues for intellectual dialogue.

Author : Sandra Marie Schneiders
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809128020

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Women and the Word by Sandra Marie Schneiders Pdf

Suggestions for resolving the problem of an exclusively male God-image that are both faithful to the tradition and liberating for women. +

Author : Virginia Ramey Mollenkott
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625646057

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The Divine Feminine by Virginia Ramey Mollenkott Pdf

Endorsements: "A calm, well-balanced, carefully prepared book. . . . Excellent for adult Bible discussion groups, for occasional sermons, for suggesting ways of inclusive language. This book teaches and directs without antagonizing." --The Bible Today "A persuasive book, useful for personal reflection and group discussion, and ideal for gift-giving." --Daughters of Sarah "This is no dry erudite volume. It rubs salve in personal wounds inflicted by centuries of biblical misreading." --Sojourners "The book reflects careful research; it is written in a style that will appeal to those interested in the implications of biblical research but without the time or inclination to follow the involved discussions of biblical scholarship." --National Catholic Reporter

Author : Mary E. Giles
Publisher : Crossroad Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824504321

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The Feminist Mystic, and Other Essays on Women and Spirituality by Mary E. Giles Pdf