Speaking with authority : Catherine of Siena and the voices of women today / Mary Catherine Hilkert ; foreword by Suzanne Noffke.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Paulist Press, c2008.Edition: [Rev. & expanded ed.]Description: viii, 137 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0809145863 (alk. paper)
  • 9780809145867 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 282.082 22 H549sp 2008
LOC classification:
  • BX4700.C4 H45 2008
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Suzanne Noffke -- Introduction -- Unholy silence and wise speech in our day -- The voices of women today -- Women's "proper place" in the church and the example of Catherine -- The witness and wisdom of Catherine of Siena -- The authority of vocation -- Catherine of Siena in her context -- The question of women's preaching in Catherine's era -- Catherine's sense of vocation -- Vocation and gender, then and now -- Baptism, charisms, and vocation -- The authority of wisdom : speaking the truth in love -- Catherine as doctor of wisdom and the recovery of Sophia -- The charism of wisdom : speaking the truth in love -- Seeking wisdom together : the need for many voices -- Discerning the truth -- The authority of compassion -- Catherine's exhortations to embrace the cross -- Catherine's metaphors for redemption -- Can women claim the cross today? -- Voices of passion and resistance -- Negative contrast experience and the politics of compassion -- Birth of hope and courage in the darkness -- Conclusion -- Notes.
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Books Books Tantur Ecumenical Institute Library Main Collection (Lower Floor) 281.082 H549sp 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available SS001291595

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-137).

Foreword / Suzanne Noffke -- Introduction -- Unholy silence and wise speech in our day -- The voices of women today -- Women's "proper place" in the church and the example of Catherine -- The witness and wisdom of Catherine of Siena -- The authority of vocation -- Catherine of Siena in her context -- The question of women's preaching in Catherine's era -- Catherine's sense of vocation -- Vocation and gender, then and now -- Baptism, charisms, and vocation -- The authority of wisdom : speaking the truth in love -- Catherine as doctor of wisdom and the recovery of Sophia -- The charism of wisdom : speaking the truth in love -- Seeking wisdom together : the need for many voices -- Discerning the truth -- The authority of compassion -- Catherine's exhortations to embrace the cross -- Catherine's metaphors for redemption -- Can women claim the cross today? -- Voices of passion and resistance -- Negative contrast experience and the politics of compassion -- Birth of hope and courage in the darkness -- Conclusion -- Notes.

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