I. The Prophetic Feminine Genius: Cognitive and Ontological
Dimensions
1. St. John Paul II on the Genius of Women, Susan Selner-Wright,
Ph.D.
2. On Women and the “Seeing’ of Others, Paul Kucharski, Ph.D.
II. Recasting Feminism and Femininity as Prophecy
3. The Feminine Genius, Personalist Feminism, and the Call for
Women to Prophesy According to John Paul II, R. Mary Hayden
Lemmons, Ph.D.
4. Woman as Prophet: A Feminism for the 21st Century, Deborah
Savage, Ph.D.
5. The New Feminism, Prophetic Bodies, and Freedom, Christine
Dalessio, M.A.
6. Prophetic Femininity in the Bible, the Church, and Nature:
Reflections on John Paul II’s Prophetism of Femininity and Marian
Ecclesiology, R. Mary Hayden Lemmons, Ph.D.
III. Spirituality of the Woman Prophet
7. Worthy of Belief: Reflections on Prophecy, Responsibility and
Virtue, Heidi Giebel, Ph.D.
8. St. Hildegard: Prophet and Doctor of the Church, Anne King,
Ph.D.
9. Women Mystics of the Catholic Church, Susan J. Stabile, J.D.
IV. Meeting Key Personal, Professional, and Cultural Challenges
10. Women and the Crises of Polarization and Secularization, Mary
Eberstadt
11. The Destructiveness of Lust and Its Cure: Reflections on Dante,
Aquinas, and Wojtyla, Anthony T. Flood, Ph.D.
12. The Logic of the Gift: Spousal Love and Marriage in the Thought
of Karol Wojtyla/St. John Paul II, Richard A. Spinello, Ph.D.
13. How Mothers with Professional Careers Experience the State of
Flourishing and Why It Matters for Faith Communities, Peggy
Andrews, Ph.D.
14. Catholic Sisters as Servant Leaders for Justice and the Common
Good, Meg Wilkes Karraker, Ph.D.
R. Mary Hayden Lemmons is associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and president of University Faculty for Life.
This is what we’ve been waiting for: a theoretical formulation of
the “feminine genius” at the heart and foundation of St. Pope John
Paul II's “new feminism.” Even better, each of these rich and
varied contributions is simultaneously a magnificent display—a
practical example—of the feminine genius at work: a prophetic
witness to the value of life and love. Three cheers
for Woman as Prophet at Home and in the World!
*Michele M. Schumacher, Private Docent at the University of
Fribourg, Switzerland, and author/editor of "Women in Christ:
Toward a New Feminism"*
This book is prophetic in character as well as in theme. It does
not look back with nostalgia to a time when the maternal aspects of
the feminine were more highly valued. Nor do its essays argue a
sort of balancing act between the traditional domestic and social
roles of women and the new realities of their professional and
political power. Rather, they make the forward-looking claim that
women's struggle to develop and share their gifts beyond the
domestic sphere will only reach its full potential when it
harnesses the "feminine genius." This power for knowing the person
and affirming her dignity, not only on account of her humanity but
as "unique and irreplaceable" is not just the heart of any woman's
flourishing, but the key to transforming a culture which, for all
its celebration of individualism, has obscured the truth of the
person as unconditionally worthy of being loved. Prophetic
femininity, grounded in the bodily capacity for nurturing life,
does not involve any contradiction between the care of persons and
the acquisition of professional knowledge and experience. The
challenge of both secular feminism and the needs of a wounded
culture find their answer in the woman who prophesies love in the
home, the workplace, and the world.
*Mary Catherine Sommers, University of St. Thomas*
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