By our lives : stories of women: today and in the Bible
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- Publication Date
- 1985
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BS 575 B9 1985
- Place of Publication
- Geneva
- Publisher
- World Council of Churches
- Publication Date
- 1985
- Physical Description
- xiv, 57 p. : ill. ; 24 x 16 cm.
- Material Type
- Book : Paper
- Notes
- "Copyright 1985 World Council of Churches, Sub-unit on Women in Church and Society". -- verso of t.-p.
- Illustrations by Nadine Hundertmark. -- verso of t.-p.
- "The Bible has a liberating message for women. This is what we discovered in a small workshop in India. We also became aware, however, that the Bible has often been used to reinforce negative cultural stereotypes about women, to denounce their struggle for equality, to discourage their full participation in church life and the ministries of the church. .... This booklet is meant to encourage women and men to re-read our Christian tradition in the light of the new experiences of women, and to become aware of attitudes which deeply influence our lives and beliefs, not based on the gospel but on dominant cultural values. Here you participate in an experience which does not claim authority, or scientific depth, or completeness. This is only one model of how women and men can start to make new discoveries in the Bible, taking seriously their own historical experience and context". -- Foreword, p. [vii].
- Contents: Foreword / Barbel von Wartenberg-Potter, Director, Sub-unit on Women in Church and Society -- Introduction -- Stories -- Crying our for justice -- Fear means compassion -- An empty dream ? -- Destined to be impure ! -- The courage to be -- Coming out of the curse -- God's "yes" and the Church's "no" -- A kind of resurrection -- At the well of life -- Letter from Mamphele -- Now, over to you !
- Added Entry
- World Council of Churches. Sub-unit on Women in Church and Society
- Wartenberg-Potter, Barbel von, 1943-
- Hundertmark, Nadine
- Subjects
- Women
- Women's rights - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Women in the Bible
- Bible - Meditations
- Women in Christianity
- Call Number
- BS 575 B9 1985
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)