Speaking with authority
Subtitle: Catherine of Siena and the voices of women today
By: Mary Catherine Hilkert ; foreword by Suzanne Noffke.
Edition: [Rev. & expanded ed.].
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Mahwah, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780809145867
Subjects: Catherine, -- of Siena, Saint, -- 1347-1380; Women in the Catholic Church; Authority -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Suzanne Noffke; title: Introduction; title: Unholy silence and wise speech in our day; title: The voices of women today; title: The witness and wisdom of Catherine of Siena; title: The authority of vocation; title: Catherine of Siena in her context; title: The question of women's preaching in Catherine's era; title: Catherine's sense of vocation; title: Vocation and gender, then and now; title: Baptism, charisms, and vocation; title: The authority of wisdom : speaking the truth in love; title: Catherine as doctor of wisdom and the recovery of Sophia; title: The charism of wisdom : speaking the truth in love; title: Seeking wisdom together : the need for many voices; title: Discerning the truth; title: The authority of compassion; title: Catherine's exhortations to embrace the cross; title: Catherine's metaphors for redemption; title: Can women claim the cross today?; title: Voices of passion and resistance; title: Negative contrast experience and the politics of compassion; title: Birth of hope and courage in the darkness.