Womanchrist: A New Vision of Feminist Spirituality [Paperback]

Christin Lore Weber (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: Harpercollins; 1st edition (October 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0062548301
• ISBN-13: 978-0062548306
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,067,126 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Christin Lore Weber, D. Min., grew up in Minnesota, leaving home after high school to enter a convent. A nun for fourteen years, she taught English and religion in high school and junior college. After leaving the convent, she continued her education, receiving a Master of Arts degree in theology and a doctor of ministry degree. Dr. Weber has been a spiritual counselor, educator, lecturer, chaplain, and the author of several books that integrate spirituality with psychology in everyday life. She continues to write and lives with her husband, author John R.Sack, in the mountains of Southern Oregon.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Womanchrist, Womanpriest, March 27, 2001

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This review is from: Womanchrist: A New Vision of Feminist Spirituality (Paperback)

Weber, a former nun turned religious counselor, fills her book with case histories of women she counseled at Wisdom House in Minnesota, anecdotes from Christian mystics and Jungian theorists, and the poetic beauty of Sumerian goddess legends. "Descending into WomanBody" is how Weber describes a seven-step process of incarnational realization, arguing from a body-consciousness which "unfolds toward cosmic consciousness." Weber says "it is not that the Incarnation has limited us but that we have limited the Incarnation, adding that Mary "does not take her meaning from him [Christ]; rather, she is a source of meaning in her self, as woman."

Weber echoes and underlines the tradition of "bridal mysticism" which some 16th century Spanish mystics developed through contemplation of the biblical Wisdom figure, saying that "the feminine becomes the mysterious alchemical environment within which man's transformation occurs." She eloquently asserts that the sacramental endowment of the church, like the church itself, is precisely Mary's realm because it is feminine in nature.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Imaginative, engaging and healing., July 21, 1997

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This review is from: Womanchrist: A New Vision of Feminist Spirituality (Paperback)

Christin Lore Weber reaches into women's experience and pulls out a poem.
WomanChrist is a meditation, a journal, a call to action and liberation,
a ritual for peace and a mystic vision. It is a journey
into the deep places of the soul where truth can be found.
Weber challenges women to desend and discover the unspoken
stories that we hide from each other and from ourselves.
And from this place of deep searching, she asks that we
recognize our brokenness as our strength.
Weber has a remarkable way of naming the broken places
and in so doing, of bringing healing to the wounds of the soul.
This book is for any woman who is willing to engage in an honest
search of self-discovery.