Enduring Lives: Living Portraits of Women and Faith in Action

by Carol Lee Flinders

Overview

In this companion volume to her best-selling Enduring Grace, Flinders profiles the lives of four contemporary women of faith. Contending that her modern subjects are the spiritual heirs to saints and mystics such as Saint Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich, and St. Clare, she draws parallels between her modern subjects and their historical predecessors. Tracing the evolution of what she terms the mother line through the centuries, she uncovers an unbroken line of succession linking the holy women of the past and the present. Fascinating enough to stand on their own, the individual stories of death-row-activist Sister Helen Prejean, primatologist and environmentalist Jane Goodall, Holocaust victim Etty Hillesum, and Tibetan Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo serve as a collective inspirational tribute to the sacred feminine. --Booklist

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608333080
Publisher:	Orbis
Publication date:	06/28/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

"The Thinking Heart of the Barracks" Etty Hillesum 27

"I've Blurred the Line" Jane Goodall 73

"Like a Wild Swan" Tenzin Palmo 145

"It Opened Like a Rose" Sister Helen Prejean 201

Conclusion 255

Postscript 261

Suggested Reading 265

Index 267

Editorial Reviews

In this companion volume to her best-selling Enduring Grace, Carol Flinders profiles the lives of four contemporary women of faith. Contending that her modern subjects are the spiritual heirs to saints and mystics such as Saint Teresa of Avila, Julian of Norwich, and St. Clare, she draws parallels between her modern subjects and their historical predecessors. Tracing the evolution of what she terms the 'mother line' through the centuries; she uncovers an unbroken line of succession linking the holy women of the past and the present. Fascinating enough to stand on their own, the individual stories of death-row-activist Sister Helen Prejean, primatologist and environmentalist Jane Goodall, Holocaust victim Etty Hillesum, and Tibetan Buddhist nun Tenzin Palmo serve as a collective inspirational tribute to the sacred feminine.

Booklist