| Women and Religion: The Original Sourcebook of Women in Christian Thought Revised Edition Contributor(s): Clark, Elizabeth a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060614099 ISBN-13: 9780060614096 Publisher: HarperOne OUR PRICE: $20.90 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1996 Annotation: In this deeply moving book of reflection and recollection, Frederick Buechner once again draws us into his deeply textured life and experience to illuminate our own understanding of home as both our place of origin and our ultimate destination. For Frederick Buechner, the meaning of home is twofold: the home we remember and the home we dream. As a word, it not only recalls the place that we grew up in and that had much to do with the people we eventually became, but also points ahead to the home that, in faith, we believe awaits us at life's end. Writing at the approach of his seventieth birthday, he describes, both in prose and in a group of poems, the one particular house that was most precious to him as a child, the books he read there, and the people he loved there. He speaks also of the lifelong search we are all engaged in to make a new home for ourselves and for our families, which is at the same time a search to find something like the wholeness and comfort of home with ourselves. As he turns his attention to our dreams of the heavenly home still to come, he sees it as both hallowing and fulfilling the charity and the peach of our original home. Writing with warmth, wisdom, and compelling eloquence, Frederick Buechner once again enables us to see more deeply into the secret places of our hearts. The Longing for Home will help to bring clarity and guidance to anyone who searches for meaning in a world that all too often seems meaningless. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Spirituality - Religion | Christianity - History - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 270.082 |
| LCCN: 96010959 |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 5.56" W x 7.94" (0.80 lbs) 400 pages |
| Themes: - Theometrics - Mainline - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A thoroughly revised and updated edition of the most outstanding volume on women in Christianity A classic in the field of religious studies since its original publication in 1977, Women and Religion has remained the definitive and most compelling documentary history of the relationship between Christianity and half of its membership. This new edition--completely revised by the original editors, renowned historian Elizabeth A. Clark and theologian Herbert Richardson, with the assistance of Gary Brower and Randall Styers--includes fully updated introductions, newly available source material, and incisive contemporary analysis. An invaluable resource for exploring the progressive history of women and Christian thought. |
Contributor Bio(s): Clark, Elizabeth a.: - Elizabeth A. Clark, a past resident of the American Academy of Religion, is the John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion at Duke University. |