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The last two weeks reading Friends of God & Prophets rather got away from me: I did the reading, and we had our Friday night twitter chats, but I didn’t manage to get the blogging in. I still hope to … Continue reading
Theology of the Friends of God and Prophets: Women’s Practices of Memory – Part 3, Ch8 of #FOGAP
In this chapter, Johnson is clearly writing for readers who are not familiar with the tools of feminist theology. She illustrates four different practices with a different story. Telling Hagar’s story by lifting up elements that are plainly in the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Feminist theology
Tagged #FOGAP, elizabeth johnson, hagar, martyrs, mary magdalen, phyllis trible
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Codification, Development, and Freedom: Completing Part 2, Dialogue with a Living Tradition: ch 5, 6, &7 of #FOGAP
In these three chapters, Johnson meticulously engages with Christian tradition to trace the early origins, later development, and contemporary teaching on the saints, particularly but not exclusively with Catholic tradition. She sees evidence of both the companionship and patronage models, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Church history, Feminist theology, Uncategorized
Tagged #FOGAP, elizabeth johnson, saints
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Dialogue with a Living Tradition: A Holy Nation, a People Belonging to God – Part 2, Ch 3 of #FOGAP
Turning to scripture, Johnson begins by exploring the biblical understanding of God’s holiness in the Shared Scriptures, which presents God’s nature both as profoundly transcendent mystery and as “a profoundly relational term that refers to God’s involvement with the world … Continue reading
Framing the Question: Christian Feminism – Part 1, Ch 2 of #FOGAP
In this second chapter, Johnson argues that the methods and results of feminist research can reinterpret the symbol of the communion of saints to life-giving effect, and begins to explore “Friends of God and Prophets” (Wis 7:27) as a beautiful, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Feminist theology, Theological anthropology
Tagged #FOGAP, elizabeth johnson
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Erased, Silenced, and Distorted: A Catholic Woman’s Lament
Women’s history of holiness has been largely erased from the collective memory of the church. Furthermore, even when they are remembered, exemplary women’s lives are interpreted as models of virtue that support the male-dominated status quo and cast women into … Continue reading
Framing the Question: The Sleeping Symbol – Part 1, Ch 1 of #FOGAP
In this initial chapter, Johnson surveys communities and academic disciplines in which study or practices around the communion of saints are, and are not, flourishing today (ie, in 1998). She closes by asking the questions that this book will attempt … Continue reading
(Reading Buddies and Conversation Partners and) Friends of God and Prophets
I’ve been wanting to read Friends of God and Prophets: A Feminist Theological Reading of the Communion of Saints by Sr. Dr. Elizabeth Johnson for years. It’s not a new book (published in 1998), but I’m especially drawn to it … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Catholic, Ecclesiology, Feminist theology
Tagged #FOGAP, elizabeth johnson, saints
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Gaudete Theology 