Parenting As Spiritual Practice And Source For Theology

Author : Claire Bischoff,Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo,Annie Hardison-Moody
Publisher : Springer
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783319596532

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Parenting as Spiritual Practice and Source for Theology by Claire Bischoff,Elizabeth O’Donnell Gandolfo,Annie Hardison-Moody Pdf

This volume investigates how mothers can understand parenting as spiritual practice, and what this practice means for theological scholarship. An intergenerational and intercultural group of mother-scholars explores these questions that arise at the intersection of motherhood studies, religious practice, pastoral care, and theology through engaging and accessible essays. Essays include both narrative and theological elements, as authors draw on personal reflection, interviews, and/or sociological studies to write about the theological implications of parenting practice, rethink key concepts in theology, and contribute to a more robust account of parenting as spiritual practice from various theological perspectives. The volume both challenges oppressive, religious images of self-sacrificing motherhood and considers the spiritual dimensions of mothering that contribute to women’s empowerment and well-being. It also deepens practical and systematic theologies to include concern for the embodied and everyday challenges and joys of motherhood as it is experienced and practiced in diverse contexts of privilege and marginalization.

Author : Susanna Snyder ,Ellen Ott Marshall
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-24
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780827231887

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Parenting for a Better World by Susanna Snyder ,Ellen Ott Marshall Pdf

Living faithfully isn’t about attending church. Being Christian is about living in right, just relationships with other people and the rest of creation. How can Christian parents avoid being overcome with the pressure to be a perfect parent and make a difference in the world? Parenting for a Better World shows there are all sorts of ways we can make a real difference from within our own homes. Even busy parents can work with their families for global justice. Without pressing you to do it all, this book offers spiritual resources for reflecting on the relationship between your faith, your calling for justice, and your commitment to parenting. Find encouragement from fellow parents who weave together stories of caregiving, activism, and scripture that affirm your sense of calling. Plus, it offers practical strategies to help committed (and over-committed) people integrate caregiving and justice work into their daily lives.

Author : Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506454603

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In the Midst of Chaos by Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore Pdf

How the daily practices of life with children can shape our faith In the Midst of Chaos explores parenting as spiritual practice, building on Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore's fresh conceptions of children from her book Let the Children Come. She questions conventional perceptions that spiritual practices require silence, solitude, and uninterrupted prayer and that assume a life unburdened by care of others. She is both honest about the difficulties and attentive to the blessings present in everyday life and demonstrates that the life of faith encompasses children and the adults who care for them. Miller-McLemore explores how parents might use seven daily practices, such as play, reading, chores, and saying goodbye or goodnight as rich opportunities to shape both parent and child morally and spiritually. Through these experiences, she shows how the very care of children forms and reforms the faith of adults themselves, contrary to the belief that adults must form children. In the Midst of Chaos also goes beyond the typical focus on individual self-fulfillment by tackling difficult questions of social justice and mutuality in the ways families live together. Readers will find in this book an invitation to love those around them in the midst of life's craziness and to live more deeply in grace.

Author : Jacqueline Kramer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0595368921

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10 Spiritual Practices for Busy Parents by Jacqueline Kramer Pdf

Parents today are often overwhelmed by demands at work and home. Many regret that they no longer have time for their spiritual practice, while others wish to bring more spirituality into their lives now that they have children to raise. Drawing from her own daily practices and classic techniques from Eastern and Western religions, author Jacqueline Kramer offers simple practices to improve your quality of life. 10 Spiritual Practices for Busy Parents gently guides you through a series of daily opportunities to practice mindfulness, gratitude, love, generosity, and other spiritual qualities. Each is presented as an opportunity rather than another item for a to-do list. These time-tested tools have been shown to build happy lives, regardless of your religion. Take a moment away from your busy schedule and find the path to peace of mind. Your children will thank you!

Author : Ann W. Duncan
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506485577

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Sacred Pregnancy by Ann W. Duncan Pdf

Sacred Pregnancy is part a retrospective on changing paradigms of and feminist discourse on motherhood, part sociological study of changing religious demographics and understandings of religious experience in the United States, and part exploration of the spiritual movements and spiritually guided reproductive health services that bring all these themes together. Resting on the premise that motherhood in general and pregnancy specifically should not be brushed aside as beneath intellectual inquiry or as settled subjects, Ann Duncan explores a new form of religious community: a growing number of diverse movements that blend business with a spiritual approach to the reproductive health of women. This new mode of spiritual ritual is centered not around a particular conception of the divine but by the shared experience of pregnancy and birth as sacred rites of passage and women's reproductive health as an avenue toward spiritual experience, community, and even economic opportunity. These spiritual birth movements are an invitation to further investigate and understand not only the social construction of motherhood and the cultural understanding and practice of pregnancy, but also the life-changing experiences of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood and the concomitant desire for religious ritual in the lives of American women.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 3265 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Author : Bromleigh McCleneghan, Associate for Congregational Life,Lee Hull Moses
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781566995481

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Hopes and Fears by Bromleigh McCleneghan, Associate for Congregational Life,Lee Hull Moses Pdf

Bromleigh McCleneghan and Lee Hull Moses have written a book about being not-perfect parents in a not-perfect world. The result, Hopes and Fears: Everyday Theology for New Parents and Other Tired, Anxious People, is a joyous celebration of child-rearing in which any parent no matter how perfect can share. 'I want to have a happy and healthy marriage, and I want to have happy, faithful kids,' proclaims co-author McCleneghan in the introduction to the book. 'But I reject the pervasive cultural lie that a happy marriage and the faithful kids are somehow the byproducts of some rigorous and largely unattainable personal or moral perfection.' Thus, Hopes and Fears is neither a 'how-to' book nor a mere meditation. Rather, the authors seek to find the beautiful and the spiritual in the sometimes mundane activities that parents have performed since the beginning of history, while at the same time allowing beautiful and spiritual insights of the past to inform and shape the activities of modern parenting. Thus, the words of a hymn can trigger an idea about how to deal with bedtime, and an exercise in baby-naming can lead to a better understanding of a passage in Isaiah. The intertwining of the spiritual and familial in this book constantly surprises and delights: a quote from Paul Tillich can stand next to one from Tina Fey or What to Expect When You're Expecting. We are often reminded that the authors, two longtime friends, are ordinary working mothers. Fortunately, they are also experienced and well-read congregational leaders, and they bring that perspective to their reflections. Hopes and Fears is also about sharing, in the widest and deepest sense of that word. As many parents know, learning to share is one of the most difficult things for many children to acquire. McCleneghan and Moses have decided to teach by example with this book, noting: 'we're hopeful that as we share our lives—the trials and tribulations and incredible joys—other parents will feel inspired to reflect on their own experiences, and perhaps even to consider new ways in which their own faith is relevant to their identities as parents.' Hopes and Fears: Everyday Theology for New Parents and Other Tired, Anxious People is highly suitable for group study as well as individual reflection.

Author : Donnelly, Elizabeth ,Petrus, Russ
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608339938

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Catholic Women Preach: Raising Voices, Renewing the Church, CYCLE B by Donnelly, Elizabeth ,Petrus, Russ Pdf

Author : Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo,Laurel Marshall Potter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781793618962

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Re-membering the Reign of God by Elizabeth O'Donnell Gandolfo,Laurel Marshall Potter Pdf

Reflecting theologically on the 50-year history of ecclesial base communities in El Salvador, this book argues that the church of the poor is a decolonial sacrament of the reign of God. The authors challenge Christians to unlearn colonial expressions of faith, concluding with a retrieval of solidarity in the Catholic social tradition.

Author : Margaret D. Kamitsuka
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781506492629

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Unborn Bodies by Margaret D. Kamitsuka Pdf

The afterlife is often a concern during fragile moments of reproductive loss. The historical church ignored the death of unborn beings and the precarity of pregnancy, focusing more on the soul than the body. A new approach to eschatology is needed that upholds emerging unborn life and the pregnant believer's moral agency.

Author : Raimundo Barreto,Roberto Sirvent
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030241667

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Decolonial Christianities by Raimundo Barreto,Roberto Sirvent Pdf

What does it mean to theorize Christianity in light of the decolonial turn? This volume invites distinguished Latinx and Latin American scholars to a conversation that engages the rich theoretical contributions of the decolonial turn, while relocating Indigenous, Afro-Latin American, Latinx, and other often marginalized practices and hermeneutical perspectives to the center-stage of religious discourse in the Americas. Keeping in mind that all religions—Christianity included—are cultured, and avoiding the abstract references to Christianity common to the modern Eurocentric hegemonic project, the contributors favor embodied religious practices that emerge in concrete contexts and communities. Featuring essays from scholars such as Sylvia Marcos, Enrique Dussel, and Luis Rivera-Pagán, this volume represents a major step to bring Christian theology into the conversation with decolonial theory.

Author : Barbara E. Reid,Shelly Matthews
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814681923

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Luke 1–9 by Barbara E. Reid,Shelly Matthews Pdf

Because there are more women in the Gospel of Luke than in any other gospel, feminists have given it much attention. In this commentary, Shelly Matthews and Barbara Reid show that feminist analysis demands much more than counting the number of female characters. Feminist biblical interpretation examines how the female characters function in the narrative and also scrutinizes the workings of power with respect to empire, to anti-Judaism, and to other forms of othering. Matthews and Reid draw attention to the ambiguities of the text-both the liberative possibilities and the ways that Luke upholds the patriarchal status quo-and guide readers to empowering reading strategies.

Author : Barbara E. Reid, OP,Shelly Matthews
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814681671

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Wisdom Commentary: Luke 1–9 by Barbara E. Reid, OP,Shelly Matthews Pdf

Because there are more women in the Gospel of Luke than in any other gospel, feminists have given it much attention. In this commentary, Shelly Matthews and Barbara Reid show that feminist analysis demands much more than counting the number of female characters. Feminist biblical interpretation examines how the female characters function in the narrative and also scrutinizes the workings of power with respect to empire, to anti-Judaism, and to other forms of othering. Matthews and Reid draw attention to the ambiguities of the text-both the liberative possibilities and the ways that Luke upholds the patriarchal status quo-and guide readers to empowering reading strategies.

Author : Lynn R. Huber ,Gail R. O'Day
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814682098

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Wisdom Commentary: Revelation by Lynn R. Huber ,Gail R. O'Day Pdf

While feminist interpretations of the Book of Revelation often focus on the book’s use of feminine archetypes—mother, bride, and prostitute, this commentary explores how gender, sexuality, and other feminist concerns permeate the book in its entirety. By calling audience members to become victors, Revelation’s author, John, commends to them an identity that flows between masculine and feminine and challenges ancient gender norms. This identity befits an audience who follow the Lamb, a genderqueer savior, wherever he goes. In this commentary, Lynn R. Huber situates Revelation and its earliest audiences in the overlapping worlds of ancient Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and first-century Judaism. She also examines how interpreters from different generations living within other worlds have found meaning in this image-rich and meaning-full book.

Author : Matthew J. Gaudet,James F. Keenan
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532686740

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Journal of Moral Theology, Volume 8, Special Issue 1 by Matthew J. Gaudet,James F. Keenan Pdf

Introduction Matthew J. Gaudet and James F. Keenan, S.J. University Ethics and Contingent Faculty James F. Keenan, S.J. Saying No to an Economy that Kills: Undermining Mission and Exploiting Vocation in Catholic Higher Education Kerry Danner Adjunct Unionization on Catholic Campuses: Solidarity, Theology, and Mission Debra Erickson The Threat to Academic Freedom and the Contingent Scholar Lincoln R. Rice Contingency, Gender, and the Academic Table Karen Peterson-Iyer The Spiritual Crisis of Contingent Faculty Claire Bischoff Departmental Chair as Faculty Advocate and Middle Manager Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty Toward an Inclusive Faculty Community Matthew J. Gaudet