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Heart of Flesh: A Feminist Spirituality for Women and Men

By Joan D. Chittister

Eerdmans. 1998. 187 pp. $20
ISBN 0-8028-4282-8

Reviewed by Freda Gardner

 

If you are a feminist, female or male, you will find convictions and new insights resonating deep in your being. You will also be challenged to think through again the broader and deeper dimensions of life lived on the basis of feminism rather than the patriarchy that has so long dominated the culture of much of the world.

If you don't know yourself as a feminist but are open to the leading of God's Spirit, the author's words will call out to you to consider "anew what the Almighty will do."

If the words patriarchy and feminism make you defensive, scornful or maybe even disgusted, this book has the potential to make you think again about the reasons for those reactions, maybe to realize that there are truths in each concept worth looking at before they...

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