Women, Writing, Theology: Transforming a Tradition of Exclusion

Contents

vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: Mending a Broken Lineage 1 Emily A. Holmes 2 Fear and Women’s Writing: Choosing the Better Part 11 Michelle Voss Roberts 3 A “Wretched Choice”?: Evangelical Women and the Word 33 Shelly Rambo 4 “My God Became Flesh”: Angela of Foligno Writing the Incarnation 53 Emily A. Holmes 5 Speaking Funk: Womanist Insights into the Lives of Syncletica and Macrina 71 Kendra G. Hotz 6 “A Moor of One’s Own”: Writing and Silence in Sara Maitland’s A Book of Silence 95 Leigh Pittenger 7 With Prayer and Pen: Reading Mother E. J. Dabney’s What It Means to Pray Through 115 Michele Jacques Early 8 Writing a Life, Writing Theology: Edith Stein in the Company of the Saints 139 Meghan T. Sweeney 9 Writing Hunger on the Body: Simone Weil’s Ethic of Hunger and Eucharistic Practice 159 Elizabeth A. Webb 10 The Body, to Be Eaten, to Be Written: A Theological Reflection on the Act of Writing in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee 183 Min-Ah Cho 11 Not With One Voice: The Counterpoint of Life, Diaspora, Women, Theology, and Writing 207 Kristine Suna-Koro 12 Embodying Theology: Motherhood as Metaphor/Method 233 Marcia W. Mount Shoop 13 Postscript: Wounded Writing, Healing Writing 253 Wendy Farley Contributor Biographies 259 Notes 263 Index 311 viii / Contents ...