Encountering the Sacred: Feminist Reflections on Women's Lives

Encountering the Sacred: Feminist Reflections on Women's Lives
ISBN-10
0567683028
ISBN-13
9780567683021
Category
Religion
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
2018-12-27
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Authors
Rebecca Todd Peters, Grace Yia-Hei Kao

Description

Many women of faith are interested in having deep conversations with their friends and families about issues they face in their personal lives. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of feminist and theologically progressive materials for these women to turn to for counsel or advice. Simultaneously, there are a growing number of theologically trained biblical scholars, theologians, and ministers who are experiencing similar life challenges, but who are generally discouraged from writing about these experiences in ways that would be accessible to the general public. This book bridges the chasm between Christian laywomen and feminist theologians. For the last fifty years, feminist theologians have sought to reimagine Christian theology in ways that speak to the realities and complexities of women's lives. They have also sought to use women's experience as the starting point for theological reflection in the same way that men's lives have shaped the history of Christian theology for the past 2000 years. In this book, feminist Christian scholars of theology and religion use the tools of their trade to examine powerful personal life experiences and to search for new and empowering ways of understanding the power of the sacred as they have experienced it.

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