Readings in Her Story: Women in Christian Tradition

by Barbara J. MacHaffie

Overview

A unique anthology. Barbara MacHaffie has collected into one volume 74 of the most important Christian documents and passages by and about women. Ranging from Genesis to now, these primary sources put the reader directly in touch with the most significant and influential events, personalities and issues of women's religious history. Often lamentably and sometimes gloriously, these voices-ancient and modern, female and male, Roman Catholic and Protestant, feminist and patriarchal-bear decisively on women's identities today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800625757
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Barbara J. MacHaffie is Israel Ward Andrews and Molly C. Putnam Professor of Religion at Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio.

Editorial Reviews

MacHaffie, author of Her Story ( LJ 8/86), collects 74 sources about women from the Bible, Mishnah, early church, through medieval, Reformation, and modern periods, to contemporary sources (Protestant, Catholic, post-Christian). The selections are well chosen and briefly introduced. This book can be a companion to Her Story , but it also stands well on its own as a good, solid introduction to the historical and contemporary treatment of women, by male as well as female writers, who express both feminist and patriarchal views in the Christian tradition. The scope is broad but American sources are especially prominent. Highly recommended for most libraries.

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