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Displaying records 101 through 110 of 2003 |
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $3.45
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kathleen Fischer
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248.843
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Publication Date: 1995-07
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Explores the spiritual dimensions of women's middle and late years through the use of stories, experiences and research from a variety of traditions and cultures.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $6.85
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Manufacturer: Image
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Fiona Maddock
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Publisher: Image
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200
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Publication Date: 2003-05-20
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Among Catholic saints, the 12th-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen perhaps best fits the description of wild womanhood offered by Cole Porter's "The Lady Is a Tramp." That is, Hildegard did it all, she did it her way, and everyone who hears about her is amazed. Such is a fair summary of the evidence offered in Hildegard of Bingen, a biography by Fiona Maddocks (the chief music critic for London's The Observer). Hildegard is today best known for her haunting musical compositions. She was also, in Maddocks's description, "a polymath: a visionary, a theologian, a preacher; an early scientist and physician; a prodigious letter writer who numbered emperors and popes among her correspondents ... Her boldness, courage, and tenacity made her at once enthralling and haughty, intrepid, and irksome." This is a straightforward, chronologically organized biography, beginning with Hildegard's girlhood (she entered a male monastery when she was 8 years old) and ending with the story of her canonization and a contemporary account of the procession that occurs annually on her feast day in Eibingen, the site of the second convent she founded. Throughout, Maddocks reminds readers of the rich historical background of Hildegard's life (the Crusades, the rise of monasticism, the beginnings of the Renaissance), offering not only an account of one extraordinary woman but of an era whose influence on our own is still being felt. --Michael Joseph Gross
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $3.99
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Manufacturer: Ave Maria Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Joyce Rupp
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Publisher: Ave Maria Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 248
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Publication Date: 2003-12
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Reading Level: 122
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Description: Joyce Rupp's extraordinary reflections on Sophia-Feminine Wisdom in the Hebrew Scriptures-have become a classic. For ten years, this collection of quieting verse and meditative writing, with mandalas and suggestions for spiritual journaling, has gently invited readers to explore the inner journey. Rupp's healing images invite us to dip into Sophia's quiet guidance and come away refreshed. EXCERPT: Thoughts from the Author This book was born on a sunny day as I sat among the myriad colors and fragrances of my friends' rose garden. I was watching over their two-year old, Elizabeth Ann, who was delightfully playing among the flowers, talking to them, laughing, and splashing the roses with her little watering can. It was there that I became keenly aware of Sophia's presence. I look at the beautiful child at play, and I remembered how Sophia (Wisdom) speaks of herself in Proverbs: I was at God' side. . . delighting God day after day, ever at play in God's presence, at play everywhere in God's world . . . --Proverbs 8:30-31 It was not the first time that I had experienced this deep awareness of Sophia's presence. There had been many moments in my life when the sudden recognition of her radiant presence had pressed tears into my eyes. Oftentimes it happened when I looked upon something in nature and felt a wordless connection between the vast beauty of the universe and the goodness of Divine life. This kind of recognition happened when I saw Elizabeth at play. In an instant all the years that stretched between Elizabeth's age and my own were connected. I saw how Sophia had touched my heart time and again and had brought me to truths that had indeed changed my life. I knew then that I wanted to write about Sophia's presence in my life. I wanted to tell how her activity in my spirit has led me to many truths which now inspire my life's journey and give order to my inner being.
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $8.88
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Manufacturer: Crossway Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dan Doriani
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Publisher: Crossway Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 262.14082
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Publication Date: 2003-04-10
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: In the midst of a raging debate about the role of women in the church, Dan Doriani offers credible and concrete guidance for mobilizing women for ministry. He combines biblical teaching and practical counsel in this comprehensive and accessible book. Doriani begins by explaining his own personal interest in the topic as a husband and a father of three daughters. Much of the book consists of analysis of the essential biblical data regarding the roles of men and women in the church. This analysis doesn’t simply show what women can’t do; it discusses all the ways in which women have effectively served in Israel and the church. He gives a biblical theology of gifts and calling and offers practical guidance about the many roles women can fill in the church today. This will prove a helpful guide for pastors, church leaders, and especially women who wish to use their spiritual gifts to advance God’s kingdom.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $29.95
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Manufacturer: Brandeis
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Tamar Ross
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Publisher: Brandeis
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 296.832082
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Publication Date: 2004-05-01
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Expanding the Palace of Torah offers a broad philosophical overview of the challenges the women's revolution poses to Orthodox Judaism, and Orthodox Judaism's response to those challenges. Surprisingly, very little work has been done in this area, beyond exploring the leeway for ad hoc solutions to practical problems as they arise on the halakhic plane. Most Jewish feminist critiques addressing broader theological concerns are conducted by non-Orthodox, Anglo-educated women. Their works attempt to locate in Judaism the root causes for what is allegedly wrong with the past and current state of women and offer suggestions for more fundamental reform. In relying on an avowedly selective range of sources and ignoring the full stock of Judaism's rich interpretive tradition, such studies bypass internal tools and concepts of the existing halakhic establishment and fail to engage the unique religious assumptions of the living community most totally committed to its tenets. Ross believes that this approach--in many ways extrinsic to the reality it purports to affect--has little chance of gaining the type of halakhic or theological credibility crucial for wholehearted acceptance by the Orthodox mainstream.
Writing as an insider (herself an Orthodox Jew), Ross confronts the radical feminist critique of Judaism as a religion deeply entrenched in patriarchy. In exposing the largely androcentric thrust of the rabbinic tradition and its biblical grounding, she sees this critique as posing a potential threat to the theological heart of traditional Judaism--the belief in divine revelation. Ross seeks to develop a theological response that fully acknowledges the male bias of Judaism's sanctified texts, yet nevertheless provides a rationale for transforming the relative import and significance of that bias in today's world without undermining their authority. Uncovering aspects of Jewish tradition that support this response, Ross proposes an approach to divine revelation which she calls "cumulativism." Building upon some interesting points of contact between postmodernist thinking and traditional Jewish ideas with regard to the meaning and function of religious language and the significance of context, this approach is based on a conflating of strict boundaries between text and its interpretation, or divine intent and the evolution of human understanding.
Ross believes that the greater fluidity afforded by cumulativism in understanding the mechanics of revelation and halakhic deliberation is necessary for legitimizing the insights of feminism and fully absorbing women's changed status within the religious rubric of Jewish tradition. Emphasizing that continuity with tradition can be maintained only when the halakhic system is understood as a living and dynamic organism that grows via affirmation of its historical legacy and respect for its constraints, her book shows that the feminist revolution in Orthodox Judaism reaches beyond its practical effect upon individual lives to teach us something more profound about the nature of religious practice in general.
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Price: $14.99
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Sale: $12.41
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Manufacturer: One Way Cafe Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jocelyn, E Andersen
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Publisher: One Way Cafe Press
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Publication Date: 2007-05-15
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Reading Level: 156
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Description: The evangelical Christian woman whose spirit is being crushed and life possibly endangered by domestic violence is faced with a unique burden. She needs straight answers-not unrealistic expectations or clichéd, stereotypical platitudes. In the book Woman Submit! Christians & Domestic Violence, by Jocelyn Andersen, she will get straight answers, clear scriptural direction, and some tough challenges from one who has been there but is there no longer.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $2.99
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Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Letty M. Russell
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.088042
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Publication Date: 1988-09
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Reading Level: 184
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Price: $21.00
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Sale: $10.25
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Anne M. Clifford
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.082
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Publication Date: 2001-03
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Reading Level: 287
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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $12.21
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Manufacturer: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sally Palmer Thomason
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Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.26
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Publication Date: 2006-07-01
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Reading Level: 168
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Description: Sally Thomason's research and reflection on aging disclose the scientific and medical oversights and cultural biases that inform our attitudes toward aging. Based on the personal experiences and stories of dozens of women interviewed, Thomason proposes strong, new, holistic perspectives that can overcome our cultural misconceptions and animate personal, medical, and religious work by and with the aging.
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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Trinity Press International
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dorothee Solle
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Publisher: Trinity Press International
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230
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Publication Date: 1991-02
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Reading Level: 210
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Description: Growing out of a series of public lectures presented to a large audience of non-theologians, this book is one of the most attractive introductions to theology to appear in recent years.
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