Spirited Women: Encountering the First Women Believers - Softcover

Ashcroft, Mary Ellen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806640278 ISBN 13: 9780806640273

Publisher: AUGSBURG BOOKS, 2000

Synopsis

Combining biblical scholarship, midrash, and an imaginative, fictional approach, Mary Ellen Ashcroft takes a new look at seven biblical women: Mary Magdalene, Maria, Mary the Mother of Jesus, Joanna, The Samaritan Woman, and Martha. In this book Ashcroft views these women in light of Christ's resurrection. What might they have thought, felt, and done, once they knew that Jesus had been raised? How did they influence-even help build-the early Christian movement? Ashcroft maintains that these women have become "lost" in history; that their true identities have been obscured. By seeing them afresh, we can gain insights for our own discipleship. Ashcroft says, "Mentors and foremothers of the faith, have you been lost, or have we? You have sat, watching these many years, waiting to welcome us. Perhaps it is in finding you that we find our place in the faith." Spirited Women includes spiritual exercises for meditation, reflection, prayer, and discussion.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Ellen Ashcroft is college chaplain and professor of English at Kalamazoo Christian College (Michigan). She has previously taught at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

About this edition

• Publisher: AUGSBURG BOOKS
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0806640278
• ISBN 13: 9780806640273
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128