Research Catalog

Title

Speaking with authority : Catherine of Siena and the voices of women today / Mary Catherine Hilkert ; foreword by Suzanne Noffke.

Author

Hilkert, Mary Catherine.

Publication

New York : Paulist Press, c2008.

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Details

Description

viii, 137 p.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• Women in the Catholic Church
• Authority > Religious aspects > Catholic Church
• Catherine, of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-137).

Contents

Foreword / Suzanne Noffke -- Introduction -- Unholy silence and wise speech in our day -- The voices of women today -- Women's "proper place" in the church and the example of Catherine -- The witness and wisdom of Catherine of Siena -- The authority of vocation -- Catherine of Siena in her context -- The question of women's preaching in Catherine's era -- Catherine's sense of vocation -- Vocation and gender, then and now -- Baptism, charisms, and vocation -- The authority of wisdom : speaking the truth in love -- Catherine as doctor of wisdom and the recovery of Sophia -- The charism of wisdom : speaking the truth in love -- Seeking wisdom together : the need for many voices -- Discerning the truth -- The authority of compassion -- Catherine's exhortations to embrace the cross -- Catherine's metaphors for redemption -- Can women claim the cross today? -- Voices of passion and resistance -- Negative contrast experience and the politics of compassion -- Birth of hope and courage in the darkness -- Conclusion -- Notes.

ISBN

• 9780809145867 (alk. paper)
• 0809145863 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2008036791

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library