Women, writing, theology : transforming a tradition of exclusion / Emily A. Holmes and Wendy Farley, editors. - Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, c2011. - xi, 315 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : mending a broken lineage / Fear and women's writing : choosing the better part / "wretched choice"? : Evangelical women and the Word / "My God became flesh" : Angela of Foligno writing the Incarnation / Speaking funk : womanist insights into the lives of Syncletica and Macrina / "A moor of one's own" : writing and silence in Sara Maitland's a book of silence / Withprayer and pen : reading Mother E. J. Dabney's what it means to pray through / Writing a life, writing theology : Edith Stein in the company of the Saints / Writing hunger on the body : Simone Weil's ethic of hunger and Eucharistic pracitce / body, to be eaten, to the written : a theological reflection on the act of writing in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictee / Not with one voice : the counterpoint of life, diaspora, women, theology, and writing / Embodying theology : motherhood as metaphone/method / Postscript : wounded writing, healing writing / Emily A. Holmes -- Michelle Voss Robetrs -- Shelly Rambo -- Emily A. Holmes -- Kendra G. Hotz -- Leigh Pittenger -- Michele Jacques Early -- Meghan T. Sweeney -- Elizabeth A. Webb -- Min-Ah Cho -- Kristine Suna-Koro -- marcia W. Mount Shoop -- Wendy Farley. A The

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Christian literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

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