Woman As Prophet in the Home and the World : Interdisciplinary Investigations.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (299 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Latin Titles, Abbreviations, and Translations -- Introduction -- Part I: The Prophetic Feminine Genius: Cognitive and Ontological Dimensions -- 1 St. John Paul II on the Genius of Woman -- 2 On Women and the "Seeing" of Others -- Part II: Recasting Feminism and Femininity as Prophecy -- 3 The Feminine Genius, Personalist Feminism, and the Call for Women to Prophesy according to John Paul II -- 4 Woman as Prophet -- 5 The New Feminism, Prophetic Bodies, and Freedom -- 6 Prophetic Femininity in the Bible, the Church, and Nature -- Part III: The Spirituality of Women Prophets -- 7 Worthy of Belief -- 8 St. Hildegard -- 9 Women Mystics of the Catholic Church -- Part VI: Meeting Key Personal, Professional, and Cultural Challenges -- 10 Women and the Crises of Polarization and Secularization -- 11 The Destructiveness of Lust and Its Cure -- 12 The Logic of the Gift -- 13 How Mothers with Professional Careers Experience the State of Flourishing, and Why It Matters for Faith Communities -- 14 Spirit in the Heartland -- Afterword -- Index -- About the Contributors.
This first-ever interdisciplinary study of the 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.