Mary C. Grey

Embracing Solitude

Prayer & Spiritual Formation

“In this inspiring new work, Bernadette Flanagan seeks not merely to uncover forgotten stories of women's spirituality and prophetic voices, but to probe the reasons for tradition's lack of attention to transformative solitude, intentionally chosen. From the desert of fourth-century Africa to the woods of contemporary America, women's choice of solitude offers new landscapes of the sacred--in ordinary life, in new forms of community, and in exploring mystical processes of inner transformation. A rich gift indeed for all who seek the divine.”

Finding God in the Singing River

Theology

“"In this creative, ground-making (rather than ground-breaking) new book, Wallace calls for a two-pronged approach to Christian tradition. Reject its human-centered, distancing from the earth doctrines and ethics, especially where God is imaged as untouched by the physical world. Rather, embrace the passionate potential of earth wisdom of scripture in a spirit-motivated conversion of the heart. This spirit, is the Holy Spirit, no ghost-like anemic entity, but the 'enfleshed, winged Earth God of Christian heritage.'”

Women and Redemption

Theology

“"It is ten years since Ruether published this magisterial historical work on Women and Redemption and thirty years since Ruether's theological pen began to influence the theological world. Encountering the new edition the reader is again struck by the scholarly research and historical comprehensiveness, by the injustice of the many contexts that denied full humanity to women, and by the sheer drama of the spirited struggles of many women to be heard in Church and society. We are grateful to Ruether for her sensitivity to readers and students for making this text so accessible; but we stand greatly in her debt for her ability to move discerningly through new cultural, political and theological currents: from liberation theology's intercontinental developments of the last 30 years, Ruether's analysis now moves us to the post–colonial marginalized Fourth World bringing new voices into the conversation. Responding to these oppressed groups and nations challenges rigid boundaries and assumptions, awakening us to the complexities and multidimensional oppressions that must be faced. The redemption story goes on and for this analysis we are indebted to the penetrating insights of Rosemary Ruether.”