Women and the Value of Suffering - An Aw(e)ful Rowing Toward God

"Kristine Rankka has produced a masterpiece--an insightful analysis of modern feminist interpretations of 'radical' or 'tragic' suffering. Here is a mature work, comprehensive in its breadth, compelling in its argument, moving in its palpable sensitivity, poetic and graceful in its articulation. By invoking the category of the 'tragic,' Rankka proposes a mystical-political spirituality to move reflection on suffering from the private, to the communal, interdependent realm. Rankka's _Women and the Value of Suffering_ is a creative retrieval of a conversation among women, long in progress, about the meaning of life's suffering. It is eminently readable and thoroughly enriching!"

George E. Griener, S.J.
Academic dean
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley

About the author

Kristine M. Rankka holds a bachelor of arts in religion in symbolic expression and a master of Library science from the University of Washington. She has also completed another graduate degree at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.

Product details

• Authors: Kristine M. Rankka
• Assisted by: Monika K. Hellwig (Editor)
• Publisher: Liturgical Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1998
• EAN: 9780814658666
• ISBN: 978-0-8146-5866-6
• No. of pages: 276
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 335 g
• Series: Zacchaeus Studies: Theology; Zacchaeus Studies: Theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works