Prophetic witness
Subtitle: Catholic women's strategies for the church
By: Colleen M. Griffith, editor.
Contributors: Griffith, Colleen M.
Publisher: Crossroad Pub. Co.; The Crossroad Publishing Company
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780824525262
Subjects: Women in the Catholic Church; Women -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church; Feminism -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
Notes: "A Herder and Herder book".

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: Speaking as women / Colleen M. Griffith; title: Introduction: Creative fidelity in challenging times / Colleen M. Griffith; title: Reenewing the vision; title: Articulating the vision anew : the banquet of the creed / Elizabeth Johnson; title: Knit together by the spirit as church / M. Shawn Copeland; title: The possibilities of creating church : a personal reflection / Rosemary Radford Ruether; title: Knowledge as power; title: Biblical interpretation and women's experience / Karen A. Barta; title: Sisters of Thecla : knowledge, power, and change in the church / Francine Cardman; title: Women within church law : shifts, expectations, and strategies in current times / Lynn Jarrell; title: Wise as serpents, innocent as doves : strategic appropriation of Catholic social teaching / Margaret R. Pfeil; title: Insistence on dialogue; title: Unknowing in the place of understanding : the theological fruits of dialogue / Jeannine Hill Fletcher; title: The dialogical imperative : listening to concerned and engaged African women / Teresia M. Hinga; title: Asian women and dialogue / Gemma T. Cruz; title: Feeling through the limits of conversation / Michele Saracino; title: Politics of the hearth; title: For the sins of the parents : Roman Catholic ethics and the politics of the family / Cristina Traina; title: Children and the common good : protection and participation / Mary M. Doyle Roche; title: When pregnancy hits home : recognizing the need for familial and ecclesial solidarity / Angela Senander; title: Fostering the next generation of faithful women / Jane E. Regan; title: Feminist ascetical practices; title: Making room for beauty / Susan A. Ross; title: Insistent inclusion : intersections of race, class, and gender / Diana Hayes; title: Practicing justice with spirit / Mary Jo Leddy; title: Claiming and imagining practices of public engagement / Rosemary P. Carbine; title: Attending to emerging discourses; title: Through the leaven of popular Catholic practices : women transforming church / Nancy Pineda-Madrid; title: Catholic sexual ethics in the twenty-first century / Patricia Beattie Jung; title: Practical theology in global Christian contexts / Susan Abraham; title: Conclusion: Upholding hope; title: On not losing heart : Catherine of Siena and the strategies of prayer and friendship / Mary Catherine Hilkert.