Sentences with phrase «fierce whimsy»

But if one needs a final image to describe women coming together to shape the enterprise, Bess B. Johnson in God's Fierce Whimsy offers an appropriate one.

I identify five voices in this debate that I take to be the most completely developed and importantly contrasting «positions» in the conversation: Edward Farley's Theologia: The Fragmentation and Unity of Theological Education and his The Fragility of Knowledge: Theological Education in the Church and the University; 2 the Mud Flower Collective's God s Fierce Whimsy; 3 Joseph C. Hough, Jr., and John B. Cobb, Jr.'s Christian Identity and Theological Education; 4 Max L. Stackhouse's Apologia: Contextualization, Globalization, and Mission in Theological Education; 5 and Charles M. Wood's Vision and Discernment.6 Although each of these voices makes important claims in its own right, which I hope to summarize as briefly as clarity and fairness permit, what is most important, I think, is the largely implicit interplay among them of contrasting insights and themes.

However, with one exception (the feminist Mud Flower Collective's God's Fierce Whimsy, discussed in Chapter 4), book - length essays about the nature and purpose of theological education written from any of their perspectives have not yet been published.

The centrality of the second issue is most passionately urged in God's Fierce Whimsy, [6] written by Katie Cannon and the Mud Flower Collective.

[6] Katie G. Cannon et al., God's Fierce Whimsy (New York: Pilgrim Press, 1985).

Cannon, Karie G., et al., and the Mud Flower Collective, God's Fierce Whimsy: Christian Feminism and Theological Education, New York: Pilgrim Press, 1985.

Not exact matches

- Publishers Weekly «Alcott reveals stories of each character through staccato pacing that builds from whimsy to woe to redemption through the course of a delectably subtle yet sublimely fierce study of many forms of bravery and loyalty.»