Desert Daughters, Desert Sons

Rethinking the Christian Desert Tradition

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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2021 Catholic Media Association Award honorable mention award in spirituality - classicalIn Desert Daughters, Desert Sons, professor Rachel Wheeler argues that a new reading of the texts of the Christian desert tradition is needed to present the (often) anonymous women who inhabit the texts. Though these women may have been included by storytellers to provide a foil to the exemplary men in the stories' foreground, Wheeler demonstrates how women's persistence in places they were not welcome witnesses to truths about where wisdom may be sought and found. In this book, Wheeler allows these women's stories to critique the desert impulse that can create a spiritual life devoid of social relationships and responsibility.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-11-15
Mått140 x 216 x 10 mm
Vikt2 722 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagLiturgical Press
ISBN9780814685006

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Rachel Wheeler is assistant professor of spirituality at the University of Portland where she teaches Bible, ecospirituality, contemplative traditions, and arts as spiritual formation. Her degrees include a PhD in Christian spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union, an MA in theology, specializing in monastic studies, from Saint John’s School of Theology, and an MA in English from Humboldt State University. She writes on desert spirituality and ecospiritual practice.

"With Desert Daughters, Desert Sons, Rachel Wheeler gives us an always-needed rereading of the desert fathers and mothers portrayed in the Apophthegmata Patrum or Sayings of the Desert Fathers. With her close readings of sayings from the alphabetical, anonymous, and systematic sayings, she challenges assumptions, peers into the margins, and offers new insights into the 'peripheral women' in early-monastic stories and sayings. She re-stories the texts from a perspective that focuses with new insight mostly on the daughters of the desert."Tim Vivian, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies, California State University Bakersfield